NCJ Number
82213
Date Published
1980
Length
182 pages
Annotation
A hearing before the House Subcommittee on Crime documents increasing violence against minorities, notably blacks and Jews, targets the groups responsible, and considers Federal responses to counter such activity.
Abstract
The Ku Klux Klan is targeted as the principal organization committed to violence and the suppression of blacks and Jews, and neo-Nazi and other less prominent groups are also mentioned. Federal civil rights laws violated by such activity are presented, and Federal strategies for enforcing these laws are suggested. Suggestions include the use of Federal grand juries to hear evidence upon which indictments for violation of the Ku Klux Klan statutes can be returned. Also proposed is the establishment of an emergency national task force of the Department of Justice, funded to form emergency teams that would be sent immediately into any community where acts of intimidation and violence against blacks and other minorities have occurred. It is believed this would help deter local citizen and official acceptance of such activity. Federal response is seen as the only source of help in communities and cities where local politicians and police are indifferent toward or in support of intimidation and violence against unpopular minority groups.