Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has expressed concern that “many law enforcement agencies” did not submit hate crime data to the FBI for its recently released annual report. She has a point: About one-fifth of agencies nationally did not submit data.
t law enforcement agencies aren’t counting them and submitting their totals to the federal government.to John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, Gillibrand joined Rep. Grace Meng, also D-N.Y., to encourage reporting of hate crimes nationally.
Gillibrand said that less-than-complete reporting to the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System could produce a false sense of security that the number of hate crimes is declining.
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