Hate Crimes Summary

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Another institution, that hate crimes victims of hate crimes should know about is Uniform Crime Report. UCR is collected every year, and then released by FBI. It includes special category of reporting hate or bias-motivated crimes. Crimes motivated by victim’s religion has even numerous of categories, for instance anti-Catholic, anti-Buddhist, anti-Islamic or anti-Protestant. (2017) As a result, it helps to recognize the ratio of occurring offenses. However, UCR, is a statistical summary of crimes reported to the police, based on voluntary reports to FBI. The more reports, the easier it would be to draw any conclusion, and in some instances, even up to 50% of crimes go unreported or undetected. FBI is tasked to collect, publish and archive