It appears to be a crime of passion,

It fits all the elements of a hate crime,

For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.

The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have a responsibility to protect New Yorkers from violent crime or another terrorist attack - and we uphold the law in doing so.

Mr. Cunningham acted not out of passion, not a crime on the spur of the moment, he acted out of greed.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.