London's target of a 20% crime reduction was set by the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime and passed down the chain of command from the commissioner to constables on the beat, whose chances of promotion were linked to hitting the target.
Sarsour was herself the target of a hate crime this September, after a man chased and threatened to behead her in New York.
"The wireless industry continues to roll out sophisticated new features, but preventing their own customers from being the target of a violent crime is the coolest technology they can bring to market," he said.
As Helen, whose roiling interior monologue provides the novel's narrative thrust, trudges through a hand-to-mouth existence with her boyfriend, Mo, and 6-year-old daughter, Sophie, she worries in circles about money, her future, her past, the dubious intentions of the casino's male clientele and the fear that Mo, a Muslim of Middle Eastern descent, will be the target of a hate crime.
According to Lyda Longa, staff reporter for the Daytona Beach News-Journal, "Police believe the victim was the target of a hate crime and was singled out because he was wearing a head turban traditional to the Sikh religion".
An Islamic center in Roseville was the target of a hate crime Wednesday, becoming the second mosque in Northern California to come under attack by vandals in nearly two weeks, officials said.
Izzat Rishq, a senior Hamas official, said on Saturday that Hamas was not concerned about becoming a target of a war crimes investigation and urged Abbas to act "as soon as possible".
It does not have to show, as with an ordinary search warrant, probable cause that the target is suspected of a crime.
The major difference is that now the collection and analysis of phone and internet "metadata" receives the blessing of the Fisa court, albeit without a specific finding that the bulk collection targets people suspected of a crime.
