“The volume of hate incidents, sadly, are increasing exponentially, especially over the last three or four years.” YYC
Hate incidents and hate-motivated crimes have been on the rise in Calgary in recent years, according to a presentation from the Calgary Police Service hate crimes unit to the Calgary Police Commission.
The combined number of hate-motivated incidents and crimes have climbed from 2019 to 2022, going from 115 to 246. The Code only has sections related to advocating of genocide, public incitement of hatred, wilful promotion of hatred and willful promotion of anti-Semitism, but doesn’t define “hate crime” or put a definition to “hate.”
CPS Chief Mark Neufeld said advocacy efforts of the Association of Chiefs of Police included urging the federal government to create a “standalone definition” of hate to be added to the Criminal Code.are very popular in Calgary right now. But context can help police and prosecutors determine hate motivation, Messenger said.
Neufeld said police have found successes in pressing charges around incidents like protests at “Reading with royalty” events.“It’s probably not a coincidence that some of the folks that are out doing this are street pastors,” Neufeld said. “But at the end of the day, we will continue to police behavior. And again, when we do lay the criminal charges, we are seeing good success through, initially, conditions that keep people away from the events.
Messenger at the time said police believed the attacks were hate-motivated, pursuing the prosecution under the hate motivation section of the Criminal Code because the victims had identifiable characteristics.
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