As we all know hate is all around us. People have different opinions, likes, and dislikes on certain things whether they agree or not with others on certain things. But how can something be determined as a potential hate crime. We will sometimes never know people’s reasoning on committing a crime unless there is hard factual evidence to prove it. But sometimes if with that there are issues to be considered when figuring out what is a hate crime. Laws are supposed to be made to protect us and others from hate crimes but such acts sometimes can go unprosecuted. Here are some reasons why hate crimes may not be labeled as potential hate crimes. First and foremost, we have a flawed justice system. Secondly, our law enforcement do not take crimes as seriously as they should. And lastly, victims are not reporting people responsible for committing these particular crimes as hate. As I was doing my research it was very hard for me to come across any crimes that involved hate being the issue or the cause of the crime. Some articles seemed to be about hate but did not saw any proof or investigation of any evidence on if it was. After all my research I decided to pick the topic on hate crimes of gays, lesbians, and transgendered people. There is a lot a hate on what sex a person should be and whom they should be involved with romantically. Even though hate crimes involve race, religion, and other things it is stated that most of all hate crimes are about gay men and Jews being the highest in ratings to experience hate crimes. (Ingraham, 2014). The first article I found to be an actual hate crime against gay was about a man saying hateful slurs. The woman that was with the gay friends did not like what she heard so she said what she felt was wrong. She then told him to stop. But apparently this guy did not like being told what to do. He slashed the woman in the face after she called him out for hurling anti-gay slurs at her pal, authorities said