Most victims
of hate crimes don’t report them to police, according to a new
study that advocates say reinforces their fears that the Trump
administration’s tough rhetoric and policies will make more people
afraid to come forward.
More than
half 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 the issue 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,
according to the report.
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