Don Beyer tweeted the following:
"Congress spelled this out in a bipartisan law, and provided money to help departments adapt to that system. If insufficient hate crime reporting continues, Congress should revisit the issue with additional legislation to strengthen the national response to crimes of bias. 6/6"Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Don Beyer:
"DOJ must be transparent about the shortcomings of these statistics, and do more to boost NIBRS reporting by local jurisdictions.Every law enforcement division at the local, state, and federal level should be reporting hate crimes through NIBRS. 5/"Read on Twitter
"We still are not seeing the progress we want on the laws larger goals of coordinating a better, data-driven response to prevent hate crimes. The 2021 data are disappointingly incomplete. washingtonpost.com/national-secur 4/"Read on Twitter
"I wrote the NO HATE Act to improve coordination between federal, state, and local agencies on hate crime reporting. Congress passed it into law to strengthen Americas response to the growing scourge of anti-AAPI hate, anti-Semitism, and white supremacist violence. 3/"Read on Twitter
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