Today, President Joe Biden signed the long-awaited COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, beefing up spending on training and data collection, and requiring states to review crime reports for discrimination.
It’s a big step for advocates, who fought for reform and are now celebrating the funding it will send to states.
But there’s a problem: Despite current incentives, many big police departments don’t report whether a crime was motivated by bias to federal authorities. And state governments often disagree on what a hate crime even is.
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