Urges Federal Bureau of Investigation to categorize white supremacists as domestic terrorists.
SR 40 is a New Jersey Senate resolution urging the FBI to classify crimes committed by white supremacists and white nationalists as domestic terrorism rather than hate or gang crimes. Currently, the FBI treats such acts as hate crimes, which receive lower priority and fewer federal resources than domestic terrorism cases. The resolution argues this reclassification would ensure these violent crimes are investigated with higher priority, allocating more resources like counterterrorism agents. It does not create new law but requests a change in FBI classification to improve response to white supremacist violence, citing that such attacks have caused more U.S. terrorist deaths since 9/11 than Islamist terrorism.
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Jan 2024
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Introduced Jan 9, 2024
Last action Jan 9, 2024
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Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee
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Britnee Timberlake
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