Hate Crime

Police officials said they would work to determine if the incident was a possible hate crime

Members of the NYPD’s strategic response group will be headed to those communities, said Chief of Department Rodney Harrison

The bill establishes a point person at the DOJ who would review hate crime incidents reported to law enforcement agencies

The measure would expedite the review of hate crimes at the DOJ and provide support for local law enforcement

A civil rights group wants to know if the gunman who killed eight people last week — four of them Sikhs — had ties to hate groups

The arrest came just weeks after the NYPD said it would be sending Asian cops undercover to stop hate crimes

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a 30-day review, citing the “recent rise in hate crimes and hate incidents"

“We are there to be witnesses, to report crimes and let the cops do their jobs from there on,” a volunteer said

“The next person you target may be a plainclothes New York City police officer, so think twice,” police officials warned

Commissioner Dermot Shea says he plans to put undercover officers out as decoys

Georgia was one of only four states without a hate crimes law when lawmakers passed it last year

In December, the suspect pleaded guilty but mentally ill to two counts of murder

The Atlanta-area shooting spree left 8 dead, most of them Asian women

Police are also bolstering community outreach efforts amid a surge in violence against Asian Americans, officials said

Most of the victims were Asian, prompting fears that the shooting spree was a hate crime