Karen Greenberg was quoted in a Crime Report article about terrorism in the United States.
As the nation experienced a record rise in the number of hate crimes last year, the question of whether they should be prosecuted as terrorism was the focus of a discussion at the 14th annual John Jay/Harry Frank Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America yesterday.
Wingate was joined by Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School; Faiza Patel, director of Violence Prevention Programs at New York University’s Brenner Center for Justice; and George Selim, senior vice president of programs at the Anti-Defamation League.
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According to Greenberg, it could give the government power to extend anti-terror practices like surveillance and putting groups on a “terrorist watch list” to any organization that promotes policies it considers destabilizing or threatening.Racism has been a consistent feature of U.S. national life, with deep roots in American history, she said, and labeling it terrorism risks distorting the problem.
Moreover, she argued, it would have little effect on preventing the kinds of racist acts now prosecuted as hate crimes.