(excerpt from) Newsday.com Defining a hate crime by REID J. EPSTEIN 10:45 PM EST, November 16, 2008 When vandals sprayed a block of cars in Mastic with racist graffiti last week, Suffolk County police didn’t consider it a hate crime. But when anti-Semitic symbols were painted onto cars in Jericho in late October, Nassau County […]
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