Monday, April 16, 2007
On August 11th, 2006 in Nashville, Tenn., a woman named Tara Cole was pushed off a dock where she was sleeping and into a nearby river. Her body washed ashore 10 days later. Her murderers were caught eventually, but nothing will ever bring Tara back to her family. What was Tara’s crime? The answer is simple. She was guilty of being defenseless. She was guilty of being homeless. Timothy Webber and Josh Dotts had set out that night specifically to target the homeless with violence and that is what they accomplished.
In its annual report entitled, “Hate, Violence, and Death on Main Street, U.S.A.,” the National Coalition for the Homeless notes that violence against the homeless rose a staggering 170 percent in the past five years, with 142 violent attacks resulting in 20 deaths just last year alone. Between 1999 and 2005, homicides against the homeless constituted more than twice the number of homicides classified as hate crimes by the FBI.
They say you can judge a society by how it treats its most vulnerable members. To read the NCH’s report, visit www.nationalhomeless.org.
Steve Nichols, Overland Park senior
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Letter to the Editor: Hate crimes increasing
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