[Arpege92]

I don't think twenty officers from the hate crimes unit seeing "Passions of Christ" was excessive at all. I wouldn't be comfortable if five of these officers went to see it and then shared their notes of this movie with the other fifteen officers.

Like I said before, I'm sure all of these officers from this unit are required to see movies and read books that could be linked to hate crimes.

[Clock King]

Given that we live is a society that values "freedom of expression" and "free speech", I wonder what these cops really do. I'm not naive about hate crimes. They are real, but they have also been politicized. Assume they did find anti-Semiticism in The Passion, then what? Ban they movie from the city? Ban they DVD from entering NY when it comes out? I mean, this "unit" is paid to investigate real crimes, not become the American version of "religious police" (as seen in Saudi Arabia).