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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WhiteWalker" data-source="post: 21057733" data-attributes="member: 548558">Should it be considered a hate crime if a criminal specifically targets law enforcement officers as his victims?In most jurisdictions, if someone attacks a police officer who is acting as an officer, there are already additional penalties. I support such additional penalties, because the police are risking their lives to protect us. I do not, however, see why there need to be further penalties on top of that.I am, however, not a huge fan of hate crimes to begin with. I think we should simply provide appropriate penalties for violent acts in the first place.There is some irony here. Many are against hate crime legislation. I am willing to bet that the people who have introduced this legislation have a problem with hate crime that provides additional penalties for protecting racial and other minorities. I am even less a fan of hypocrisy than I am of hate crime laws.</blockquote>

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