ABSTRACT
The challenges of preventing, prosecuting and otherwise dealing with the effects of hate crimes are some of the toughest challenges facing modern police leaders. To do it effectively requires leaders, who often have confined geographical boundaries, to be cognisant of events in other continents. Crimes on our streets today can have their root-causes in conflicts from other millennia (see Hall in relation to historical events as ‘triggers’ for hate crime, this volume) and responses today will affect the trust felt by affected communities decades from now. This may sound like a grand statement but I believe it to be true.
