On the same day a report comes out on anti-Latino hate crimes in Long Island, Newsday is reporting another bias incident in Patchogue. Hate-crime detectives are looking into a break-in at a Latino church where anti-Hispanic notes were left behind, the paper reports.

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s report is available here. It compiles new and published reports of hate crimes on Long Island, starting with the tensions in Farmingville in the 1990s and continuing beyond Marcelo Lucero’s stabbing death in November of last year. Woven into the narrative are comments by local politicians and a “quality of life” group in Farmingville, which grew with assistance from the national Federation for American Immigration Reform. SPLC, based in Alabama, regards FAIR as a hate group.

The report’s editor, Mark Potok, writes:

Latino immigrants in Suffolk County are regularly harassed, taunted, and pelted with objects hurled from cars. They are frequently run off the road while riding bicycles, and many report being beaten with baseball bats and other objects. Others have been shot with BB guns or pepper-sprayed. Most will not walk alone after dark; parents often refuse to let their children play outside. A few have been the targets of arson attacks and worse.

“If I’m living in a neighborhood and people are gathering like that, I would load my gun and start shooting, period. Nobody will say it, but I’m going to say it.”

“I know I speak for all the good, law-abiding people of this county in denouncint all acts of crime and violence against all persons. We welcome any information that can be provided to assist the district attorney in pursuing accusations.”