The City of Palo Alto has voted to enlist the help of the San Francisco Division of the FBI in order to combat a string of hate crimes and incidents of bigotry.
In a 4-1 vote on March 10, the Human Relations Commission passed a motion “To support a recommendation to bring the FBI and community resources to Palo Alto to do community education on hate crimes. In addition, make a recommendation to the council to increase public awareness and marketing on how to report a hate crime or hate incident.”“It grieves me to no end that we’re seeing hate crimes continue to manifest in this community,” said Rev.
The commission’s vote allows the city to begin working in conjunction with the FBI’s San Francisco office on “.” Smith said the agency can educate Palo Alto citizens on how to help build stronger cases for investigators, by properly documenting and reporting offenders. “[The FBI] have a unit that is doing specific public education and wants to come into communities,” said Smith. “One of the significant things that we need to be able to do, is track and report these hate crimes, when individuals go through the system. We can create a pattern. And when time comes for prosecution, we’re able to prosecute them. That is the end goal.”
Smith made the proposal against the backdrop of a series of hate crimes and incidents in Palo Alto in the past three years:Aug 2021: Threats of violence against pastor of First United Methodist Church of Palo AltoAug 2021: Sushi restaurant owner subjected to 15-minute racist tirade by customer who wanted to pay in cash
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