CSA training module on how to identify hate crimes.

1. 1. Under the Door 2. Discussion 3. Spray-Paint 4. Speaker 5. Hang up
6. One Night 7. In America
Case Study Series
Hate Crimes
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Hate Crimes are a criminal offense that manifests evidence that the victim was
intentionally targeted because of the perpetrator’s bias against the victim.

2. 1. Under the Door
1. Under the Door
An African American faculty member, who teaches in the African Studies
Program, reports finding sheets of paper shoved under her office door on
November 17, 2020 in University Hall when they arrived at 10:00 AM. She left
the office on November 16, 2020 at 6:30 PM. On these papers are swastikas
and pictures of the Ku Klux Klan. Red droplets are splattered all over the
pages. You were informed of this at 10:30 on the same day. You request that
they put all the documents in a safe place while you file a report.
Yes
Explain time frame
in narrative
Hate crime with
bias of Race
Chicago Campus
East
On-campus Property
Clery Geography
Location:
UIC Campus:
Crime Category to
Report:
Date & Time
Incident Occurred:
Report this incident?
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3. 2. Discussion
2. Discussion
A White student causes a disturbance during a class discussion on race
relations, making racial slurs about Asian, Black, and White students in the
class. This event occurred on March 17, 2020 at 3:15 PM in Douglas Hall . The
Faculty member instructs the students that such comments are not
acceptable and that the student owes an apology to the class and its
members. The student tells the Faculty member to “shove it”, throws the
class handouts up in the air, and walks out of the classroom. The Faculty
member apologizes to the class for the incident and then dismisses the class
and comes directly to you a CSA in the College of Business Administration.
Yes
March 17, 2020
at 3:15 PM
Hate crime with
bias of Ethnicity
Chicago Campus
East
On-campus Property
Clery Geography
Location:
UIC Campus:
Crime Category to
Report:
Date & Time
Incident Occurred:
Report this incident?

4. 3. Spray-Paint
3. Spray-Paint
Steve Rogers, Residence Advisor for Student Residence Commons South, is
informed by residents (and confirms) that swastikas have been spray-painted
on the stairwells between the floors where members of a Jewish student
group live. The spray-painting follows a week of escalating tension between
some Jewish and non-Jewish students over news about the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. The residents inform Steve Rogers on January 30, 2020 at 8:00 AM
and state that the spray painting must have occurred over night as one of
them used the stairs last night at 9:00 PM. The swastikas were not there at
that time.
Yes
Explain time frame
in narrative
Hate crime with
bias of Religion
Chicago Campus
East
On-campus Housing
Facility
Clery Geography
Location:
UIC Campus:
Crime Category to
Report:
Date & Time
Incident Occurred:
Report this incident?

5. 4. Speaker
4. Speaker
A transgender women, who had been a speaker at a recent campus LBGTQ
event was leaving the East side campus bookstore at 3:00 PM on March 3,
2020 when three (3) men walking toward her said, “Hey, what’s your
problem? Huh?” She kept walking, trying to ignore them. However, as they
got close, one yelled “We don’t want no she-males around here!” and a
second one yells obscenities at her. Then all the men run off. Ryan, who is a
CSA, has observed the situation and goes to the woman to ask if she is hurt
and needs assistance.
Yes
March 3, 2020 at
3:00 PM
Hate crime with
bias of Gender
Identity
Chicago Campus
East
On-campus Property
Clery Geography
Location:
UIC Campus:
Crime Category to
Report:
Date & Time
Incident Occurred:
Report this incident?

6. 5. Hang up
5. Hang up
During finals week (May 4-11, 2020), Victor Borkowski, a gay Adjunct Assistant
Professor in the Graduate College located on the 6th floor of University Hall,
gets a series of phone calls from an unidentified woman, stating that she
hates gay people and then hangs up. One time the caller left a voicemail
message containing offensive and graphic gay slurs. Prof. Borkowski proceeds
with reporting the phone calls to a designated CSA in his department on May
8, 2020 at 8:30 AM.
Yes
Explain time frame
in Narrative
Hate crime with bias
of Sexual Orientation
Chicago Campus
East
On-campus Property
Clery Geography
Location:
UIC Campus:
Crime Category to
Report:
Date & Time
Incident Occurred:
Report this incident?

7. 6. One Night
6. One Night
The Office of Asian Studies in University Hall has statements written in
Chinese outside of the door. One night the office is vandalized, with anti-
Chinese threats and disparaging anti-Chinese messages. In the weeks prior,
the United Nations disputed the legality of China's expansive claims to the
South China Sea. The Director of Asian Studies arrives on September 7, 2020
at 8:00 AM sees this and immediately comes to the Dean’s Office where she
knows Rhonda, a CSA. There were no such messages when she left the office
the day prior at 5:00 PM.
Yes
Explain time frame
in Narrative
Hate crime with
bias of Ethnicity
Chicago Campus
East
On-campus Property
Clery Geography
Location:
UIC Campus:
Crime Category to
Report:
Date & Time
Incident Occurred:
Report this incident?

8. 7. In America
7. In America
Two students are walking on campus at 3:00 PM on October 5, 2020, speaking
Spanish. Five other white students surround them, and start shouting “You’re
in America! Speak English!” A heated exchange occurs for several minutes and
inappropriate hand gestures and obscenities are exchanged. They proceed to
the Department of Psychology in the Behavioral Sciences Building at 3:30 PM,
as both are Psychology majors where they report the incident to the
Department Head Assistant, who serves a CSA.
Yes
October 5, 2020
at 3:00 PM
Hate Crime with Bias
of National Origin
Chicago Campus
East
On-campus Property
Clery Geography
Location:
UIC Campus:
Crime Category to
Report:
Date & Time
Incident Occurred:
Report this incident?