Hate crime laws won’t actually prevent anti-Asian hate crimes

In this Vox article legal expert and law professor James Coleman expresses the difficulty in hate crime laws as a preventative measure against anti-Asian hate crimes. He shares: “It’s really hard to predict who is going to be the perpetrator,” says Duke law professor James Coleman. “People in the community need to be speaking out against it, people seeing these actions taking action against it. It requires a community response that makes it costly for people to do this.”

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