How to Use bias crime in a Sentence

bias crime

noun
  • The police report does not list the incident as a hate/bias crime.
    — Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Last month, Bivins tweeted that Oregon should do away with bias crime laws.
    — oregonlive, 7 May 2022
  • Rosenblum urged those in attendance to use and spread awareness of the state’s bias crime hotline.
    — oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Mark Meeks, 40, was charged with first-degree bias crime and menacing.
    — oregonlive, 5 June 2021
  • Is there a large number of a specific bias crime that may not fit with the area’s demographics?
    — Rachel Glickhouse, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2012
  • He was charged with a second-degree bias crime and harassment, officials said.
    — oregonlive, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Wareing said a group of Spanish-speaking men were the targets of a bias crime earlier this year.
    — Evan Bush, The Seattle Times, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Law enforcement is not currently looking into the incident as a bias crime.
    — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2022
  • And county district attorneys will be required to track and report their bias crime prosecutions and outcomes to the state.
    — oregonlive.com, 5 June 2019
  • He was being held on charges of menacing, criminal mischief, assault, unlawful use of a weapon and committing a bias crime.
    — oregonlive, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The Jussie Smollett case could have a detrimental impact on those actual victims of bias crimes who seek justice in the future.
    — WSJ, 10 July 2019
  • Portland police are looking into a possible bias crime after a noose was left tied to a baseball field fence in Southwest Portland.
    — oregonlive, 21 Oct. 2020
  • His death grabbed the attention of the FBI and helped lay the foundation for Indiana to pass its version of a bias crimes law.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2023
  • But as the nation faces a spread in bias crime incidents, the family wants to ensure the public remembers one of the worst hate crimes of the 20th century.
    — New York Times, 9 July 2018
  • An Idaho man is facing a bias crime charge after beating a transgender woman who used a women’s bathroom at an Oregon coast park, records show.
    — oregonlive, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Three people, including a transgender woman, were attacked in Portland, Oregon, in what police say may be a bias crime.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Dia, founder of Colorado’s African Leadership Group, was among those who demanded that the fire be investigated as a bias crime.
    — NBC News, 31 Jan. 2021
  • No arrests have been made, and the incident is being investigated by the NYPD as a possible bias crime.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • State lawmakers in 2019 shifted the official name of the offense from intimidation to bias crime — and upgraded the offense to a felony.
    — oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The former landlord of the Stewart Hotel, the longtime home of Portland’s oldest strip club, has pleaded guilty to bias crime and assault allegations.
    — oregonlive, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Denson pleaded no contest to one count of unlawful use of a weapon and one count of a bias crime in the second degree on Friday — a hate crime under state law, the Oregonian reported.
    — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Ian Quin Jackson, 28, has pleaded not guilty to all charges, including one count of second-degree assault, two counts of fourth-degree assault and two counts each of first and second-degree bias crime.
    — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2020

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