Years later, the community is still lobbying to get improved hate crime tracking data and federal funding for security.
"This tragedy was heard, not just in the United States, but all over the world," Kaleka said Friday in aThe shooting became the deadliest targetedon Sikh Americans in U.S. history. So, while hate crimes were not a new concept to Sikh Americans, the Oak Creek assault sent shockwaves through the community, said Sim J. Attariwala, a senior policy and advocacy manager of the Sikh Coalition.
"Oak Creek can be seen as a warning of the increasingly violent and assertive role that white supremacy has set out to play in American society over the next decade," Attariwala said."Our community, the AAPI community, the Latino community, the Black community, the Jewish community, the Muslim community — they're all, I think, at a heightened sense of vigilance."
One way to potentially lessen these threats moving forward is to improve the way hate crime data is tracked in this country, he said. Local law enforcement agencies only report hate crimes to the FBI voluntarily — they are not required to. This means it's likely many hate crimes occurring in the U.S. are going"Having that data and taking the reporting of the data seriously would help to be able to allocate resources," Lieberman said.
If the government is able to increase the budget allotted for this grant, more nonprofit organizations and places of worship would be able to secure funding, he said.
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