WASHINGTON — The majority of hate crimes
experienced by U.S. residents over a 12-year period were not reported to
police, according to a new federal report released Thursday that stoked
advocates' concerns about ongoing tensions between law enforcement and
black and Latino communities.
More than half of the 250,000 hate crimes that
took place each year between 2004 and 2015 went unreported to law
enforcement for a variety of reasons, according to a special report on
hate crimes from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Hate crimes were most
often not reported because they were handled some other way, the report
said. But people also did not come forward because they didn't feel it
was important or that police would help.
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