law enforcement

The Hate Crime Reporting Gap in San Francisco: Statistics vs. Reality

Members of San Francisco's Coalition on Hate Violence say that California's recently-released hate crime report represents a cause for deep concern, but not for reasons you might expect.


PA Police Indicted in Hate Crime Cover-Up

Shenandoah, PA: When two Pennsylvania teenagers were acquitted in May in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant laborer, many people, from the victim's widow to the state governor, felt justice had not been served. 

Apparently the Department of Justice had similar concerns. And now they're charging local police as well.


Not In Our Town as a Tool for Law Enforcement

A Deputy Attorney General Reflects on the Power of NIOT

By Paul Sheridan, Deputy Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the West Virginia Attorney General's Office