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Leadership

Preventing and Investigating Hate Crimes: Responding to an Increasing Challenge

Location: Ballroom C3, KBHCC

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Sunny Schnitzer

Policy Advisor
Bureau of Justice Assistance, United States
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David Rausch

Director
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, United States
Louis M. Dekmar

Chief of Police
Lagrange Police Department
Lagrange, Georgia, United States
Mike Milstein

Hate crimes are an increasing issue for law enforcement. During the last year, hate crimes against Asian Americans increased 169 percent and houses of worship have become places of risk for hate crimes and mass incidents of violence. Hate crimes are uniquely complex cases. In addition to the investigatory challenges facing agencies, hate crimes also often cause a broader pain and fear in the community. For a wide variety of reasons, victims may be reticent to report these crimes to law enforcement at all, creating a large reporting gap in actual hate incidents versus those reflected in national statistics. This panel will highlight promising practices from law enforcement leaders and resources at the Bureau of Justice Assistance to conduct outreach and education and to investigate hate crimes.