FBI national hate crimes database

Despite Legal Requirement, Over 100 Federal Agencies Don’t Report Hate Crimes

Jeremy Christian at a “March for Free Speech” rally in Portland on April 29. Christian was chraged with a double murder and hate crimes, after he cut the throats of two men and stabbed another on a commuter train late on Friday afternoon.(Photo: Doug Brown/The Portland Mercury)
In violation of a longstanding legal mandate, scores of federal law enforcement agencies are failing to submit statistics to the FBI’s national hate crimes database, ProPublica has learned.