Asian-American lawmakers Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) are pressing the Justice Department to speed up implementation of provisions in a new federal law combating hate crimes, warning that public fatigue and frustration with coronavirus restrictions and public safety mandates could lead to another spike in “hate-based violence,” reports the Washington Post. Their legislation, which aims to expedite the Justice Department’s reviews of purported hate crimes reported to the federal government, is considered a first step in addressing the matter.
The lawmakers said the agency must pay close attention to other aspects of the bill, including bolstering efforts from states and localities to report and investigate hate crimes and to create public information campaigns encouraging victims to come forward. They added that the law requires his agency to do more to encourage localities to create online reporting portals for hate-related incidents as well as attacks. Rachel Rossi, a deputy associate attorney general, and the department’s hate-crimes coordinator, said that the FBI has elevated hate crimes to the highest level of national threat priority, increasing resources to its 56 field offices, and is conducting conferences with local law enforcement agencies to help improve training and data collection. She said the Justice Department has added information on how to report attacks to its website in seven languages, and will soon add 10 more and that new federal grant programs will target local jurisdictions that have not reported hate crimes over the past three years.
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