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Civil Rights

The Randolph Police Department has expanded the Civil Rights Unit, which is supervised by Deputy Chief Melissa Greener. In addition to DC Greener, Detective Sergeant Jason Fisher, Detective Christopher Jones and Officer Jonathan Isidor are assigned to the unit.

The Civil Rights Unit will serve as a community liaisons and participate in outreach, review incident reports on hate crimes, and serve as a subject matter experts to the department on the issue of hate crimes. The Civil Rights Officers will ensure hate crime data is transparently reported, publicly available, and easily accessible to ensure the public’s confidence in law enforcement’s response to hate incidents.

Based on Mandate’s set forward in Massachusetts, all reported Hate Crimes will be investigated when reported and forwarded to the Civil Rights Unit to assist or follow-up on preliminary investigation. For more information on how this unit can help, please contact us.

Hate Crimes

A hate crime is any attempted or actual criminal act, as defined by state statute, perpetrated on a person or persons, due to the victims actual or perceived race, color, creed, ancestry, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability or gender.

The following are examples of hate crimes:

  • Criminal acts which inflict injury regardless of severity.
  • Threats of bodily harm or violence that look like they can be carried out.
  • Criminal acts which result in property damage.
  • Any criminal act or attempted criminal act directed against public or private agencies, schools, churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, or religious institutions.

Hate Incidents

Hate incidents are non-criminal actions by any person or group, directed toward the person or property of another, due to a victims race, color, creed, ancestry, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability or gender.

The following are examples of hate incidents:

  • The circulation of offensive printed material, handwritten material, or drawings placed on lawns, porches, stairways, automobiles, vestibules or in mailboxes.
  • Offensive communication from one person to another such as insults, jeers, signs, and body language that does not constitute a criminal act.