NCJ Number
115434
Date Published
1988
Length
2 pages
Annotation
Diligent police work in the 1980's led to many criminal indictments against members of organized hate groups.
Abstract
Police today deal with the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups as they deal with street gangs or organized crime; they gather information about the groups, share that information among themselves and vigorously enforce appropriate laws dealing with hate group criminality. Good police work in the 1980's enabled the U.S. Justice Department, between 1979 and 1985, to prosecute 84 Klan members for violence that was racially motivated. In addition, white supremacists were convicted of murder; conspiracy to bomb churches, poverty law centers and parts of southern cities; violation of state paramilitary laws, and firearms violations. Still other white supremacists were indicted for assault, conspiracy to commit bank robbery, and murder. In 1987 a group of 14 white supremacists were indicted for seditious conspiracy but were found innocent by an all-white Arkansas jury.