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Article: Hate Crime Laws Unevenly Enforced, Report Concludes
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- Precinct Reporter
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- October 28, 2004
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Precinct Reporter
10-28-2004
California's hate crime laws - among the oldest and most comprehensive in
the nation - are unevenly interpreted and enforced across the state,
according to a report made available today by the California Policy
Research Center.
The report also finds that a little more than 40 percent of local police
and sheriff departments do not have a hate crime policy to guide their
implementation of the state laws, even though they are charged with the
responsibility of enforcing hate crime statutes.
"This is reminiscent of the uneven enforcement of other bodies of criminal
law, for example domestic violence laws in the 1970s, insofar as some law
enforcement agencies are adopting ...