Justice Department report says police aren't fully reporting hate crimes to the federal government: "An incomplete picture"
CBSN
Police departments in New York and Los Angeles – the nation's two largest agencies – top the list of the approximately 7,000 police forces that don't report hate crimes to the federal government, according to a Department of Justice report released Wednesday.
The lack of reporting has given an "incomplete picture" of hate crimes in the country, the U.S. associate attorney general said this week.
In Dec. 2022, the FBI released a report showing there were 7,262 hate crime incidents and 9,024 victims in 2021. Much of the violence has targeted the Black community – almost 60% of the reported bias crimes – while other reports include crimes against people based on their sexual orientation, gender and religion. But many police forces are not reporting hate crimes to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
