Hate Crimes

Phoenix DJ Community Reacts to Hate Crime Against Austin Head

Local DJ and activist Austin Head was assaulted early Friday morning in what has now been designated an anti-gay hate crime. The local community has expressed outrage over this incident, as well as sending its best regards to Austin Head. Check out what some local DJs have to say about the incident ... More >>

Phoenix DJ Austin Head's Assault Designated as Anti-Gay Hate Crime

Police say the assault of Phoenix DJ, activist, and former New Times clubs editor Austin Head and a friend -- which was detailed this morning on our music blog, Up on the Sun -- was an anti-gay hate crime.Phoenix police Sergeant Steve Martos says the case has been designated as a "bias crime," and t ... More >>

Former County Constable Jonathan Levenson Busted in Anti-Semitic Scam to Torch Home For Insurance Payout

Tempe Police DepartmentJonathan Levenson​A former Maricopa County constable was arrested over the weekend after police say he conspired to burn his house down so he could collect an insurance payout.According to the Tempe Police Department, former Kyrene Justice Court Constable Jonathan Harold Irw ... More >>

Phoenix Hate Crimes Rise 125 Percent from 2006 to 2010

democraticunderground.orgYes, Confederate Arizona is alive and well...Recently obtained statistics from the Phoenix Police Department show that hate crime in Arizona's most populous city continues its upward trend, with a 17.4 percent jump in bias incidents from 2009 to 2010.The PPD reported 115 suc ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, Russell Pearce and Jan Brewer's Arizona: Hate Crime Stats Climb

democraticunderground Jan Brewer's new Arizona flag? The FBI stats suggest so... As if you need more proof that Arizona is the "state of hate," look no further than the FBI's recently released hate crime report. From 2008 to 2009, Arizona's number of reported hate crimes increased by more th ... More >>

The Career Criminal Squad Scores Again, Putting the Boot to Phoenix's Contingent of the Vinlanders Social Club

Vinlanders Vanquished: Phoenix PD's Career Criminal Squad Crushes White Supremacist Gang in Arizona

The Vinlanders Social Club, out of business in AZ because of the Career Criminal SquadAccording to records on file with the Maricopa County Superior Court, the investigators of the Phoenix Police Department's elite Career Criminal Squad, with the assistance of the local Anti-Defamation League,& ... More >>

Rick Romley Seeks Hate Crime Enhancement for White-on-Brown Shooting in South Phoenix

Alleged killer Gary Kelley now facing hate crime enhancement in a South Phoenix shootingThe Maricopa County Attorney's Office has confirmed that prosecutors will seek a hate crime enhancement against Gary Kelley in the May 6 shooting death of Juan Varela in a South Phoenix neighborhood.Kelley, an An ... More >>

Good Shepard

Matthew's mom vs. hate

SB 1070 Shooting? Phoenix Police Release Report on White-on-Brown South Phoenix Slaying Some Have Linked to SB 1070

A small memorial for Juan Varela at the site of his killing, nearby his houseThe Phoenix Police Department has released its report on the May 6 fatal shooting of Juan Varela in South Phoenix, allegedly by his neighbor Gary Kelley. Some have suggested Arizona's new "papers please" law was a moti ... More >>

Hispanic Neighbors of Suspect in White-on-Brown Homicide Say He's "Not a Racist"

The crime scene from today's shooting: Was race a factor?Police are saying that a 50 year-old white male shot his 44 year-old Hispanic neighbor in South Phoenix in what authorities have characterized as a "neighborhood dispute." The neighborhood? Near the cross streets of Alta Vista Road and Montezu ... More >>

CBS 5 News Reports on the Fight to Save the Career Criminal Squad

Can the Career Criminal Squad be spared the ax? CBS 5 reports...CBS 5's Peter Busch did a segment for last night's news on the fight to save the Career Criminal Squad, a squad of four detectives and one sergeant that goes undercover to investigate street-level hate crimes and murder-for-hire cases.I ... More >>

Courtney Bisbee Is Assaulted in Prison, and a Band of Skinhead-Collaring Cops Gets Busted Up

On Hate Crimes and Cultural Smells

DEATH VALLEY: Phoenix Police Won't Label Murder a Hate Crime but Suggest There Were Racial Overtones

​Phoenix police are looking for the man responsible for the shotgun slaying of a woman in Phoenix early Saturday morning.Police say white 39-year-old Kelley Jaeger and her black friend, 48-year-old Jeffrey Wellmaker, were walking together in Palma Park at 12th Street and Dunlap Avenue whe ... More >>

Hot Links: Cops on Buses, Graffiti on Cars, and Simpson's Plea

​Chandler Police are going back to school this fall, as officers plan to ride school buses to ensure drivers obey the laws around school buses, and stop when buses activate their "stop" signs. The penalty for a first-time violation is a fine of $250...A Mesa-based company called Dixon Golf has cre ... More >>

Arpaio Does U-Turn, Heads to Fountain Hills for Meeting on Hate Crimes

​   Sheriff Joe Arpaio is so concerned about recent hate crimes in his hometown of Fountain Hills, he decided to cancel a trip to Tucson today for a planned speech. The weird part is that he posted a message on his Twitter account at about 3 p.m. today that he was actually on his way to ... More >>

Don Logan Confronts White Supremacist Daniel Mahon in Federal Court, Judge Denies Mahon Bond

Don Logan, the former Scottsdale Diversity Director who confronted white supremacist Daniel Mahon in court today​ Shackled and dressed in stripes, Daniel Mahon avoided Don Logan's eyes in federal court today as the man Mahon's accused of targeting with a mail bomb spoke to the court, looking ... More >>

Tom Metzger's Buds Dennis and Daniel Mahon Collared for Scottsdale Bombing, Arizona ADL Helped Bring Them Down

White supremacist godfather Tom Metzger at the 2004 Aryanfest, from New Times' cover story "Barbecue Nations" Friday morning, I dropped by the offices of U.S. Attorney Diane Humetewa to attend a news conference announcing the indictment of identical twin white supremacists  ... More >>

Mayor Phil Gordon Torpedoes Arpaio Over the Sheriff’s Neo-Nazi and Nativist Pals, and One More Reason the Democrats Need to Take Boxing Lessons

Phil Gordon Demands Joe Arpaio Distance Himself from Neo-Nazis after Holocaust Museum Shooting

Arpaio's neo-Nazi problem was documented at length in this recent New Times cover storyIn a response to the tragedy today at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum where 88-year-old white supremacist James von Brunn allegedly opened fire killing a security guard before being severely wounded himself, Ph ... More >>

"Healing from a Hate Crime: A Dream in Doubt"

Neo-Nazis and Extreme Right-Wingers Love Joe Arpaio, and There’s Evidence that the MCSO Keeps Them Close

White-Supremacist Activity Is on the Rise in Sand Land, and One Latino-American Family Is the Victim of a Vicious Hate Crime in North Phoenix

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Nation of Islam politico/author reviews her Memories

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Easter ethnic cleansing.

Transgender Benders

Local Hero

Josh Fiedler likes to think he'll bring violent Valley skinheads a better image

Lynch Burg

Actors interviewed the people of Laramie, Wyoming, where a gay student was killed, and then became them

Guilty Conscience?

MTV does an about-face with a tele-film on the Matthew Shepard case and the launch of a yearlong information campaign

Princess of Darkness

HAVE WE COMMITTED A "VEGGIE HATE CRIME"?

WHY THIS YOUNG MAN'S DEATH MATTERS

TO THE COPS, SOME CRIMES JUST SEEM LESS IMPORTANT THAN OTHERS