Hate Rising: A Special Report on Colorado’s Increasing Animosity
Hate crimes, hate groups, and other measures of bias in the state are all on the rise. 5280 investigates what's behind the hostility and what can be done to stop it.
Hate crime:
According to Colorado Revised Statute 18-9-121, “a person commits a bias-motivated crime if, with the intent to intimidate or harass another person because of that person’s actual or perceived race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, physical or mental disability, or sexual orientation,” he or she knowingly causes bodily injury (a class 5 felony), damages another person’s property (a class 1 misdemeanor), or puts another person in fear of injury or damage to their property (also a class 1 misdemeanor).
Colorado’s New Era of Ill Will
The Animus Atlas: Tracking Bias Motivated Behavior Across the State
The Mathematics of Malice: Why Hate Crime Stats Can’t Be Trusted
Anatomy of a Colorado Hate Crime
How a Single Slight or Stereotype Can Lead to More Serious Bias Behavior
How to Recognize—and Engage With—an Extremist in the Making
21 Years After His Death, Matthew Shepard’s Foundation Is Still Working to End Hate
