The Department of Justice will hold a summit on violent crime next month, including one to specifically focus on hate crimes.

Eric Treene, the special counsel to the DOJ’s civil rights division on religious discrimination, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that agency’s task force on crime reduction and public safety will hold a summit on violent crime in the third week of June.

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