FBI director: Better hate crime tracking needed

Published April 29, 2014 12:43am ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — State and local law enforcement need to do a better job of tracking and reporting hate crimes so that the public can “fully understand what is happening in our communities, and how to stop it,” FBI Director James Comey said Monday.

Comey told an Anti-Defamation League summit that some jurisdictions fail to report hate crimes in their communities, while others say that none occurred — “a fact that would be welcome if true.”

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