Justice Department: Majority of hate crimes go unreported

By Kelly Cohen

Published June 29, 2017 4:01am ET

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A majority of the hate crimes committed between 2004 and 2015 were not reported to police, according to new data from the Justice Department.

Data released late Wednesday from the department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics showed an average of 250,000 hate crimes were committed every year over that time span. But most of them were not reported.

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