Board Seeks to Standardize Reporting of Hate Crimes
Los Angeles County Supervisors on Tuesday asked their Human Relations Commission to study how to make the reporting of hate crimes more uniform across the county.
The motion by Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke was made in response to a Times story about police departments and school districts that fail to fully report hate crimes, leading to incomplete and skewed statistics.
For example, the Los Angeles Unified School District’s oft-criticized system showed no hate crimes at Grant High School over the last two years, even though a fight broke out last year between as many as 200 Armenian and Latino students.
The motion, which passed unanimously, called for the report to be made in 60 days and to focus on how to encourage schools to improve their reporting.
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