Hate crimes continue to be underreported across America — something that Queens Congress Member Grace Meng and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand want to change.
The pair appeared together at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice on Monday and said that more needs to be done to ensure that law enforcement agencies are notifying the FBI about hate crimes. Currently, state and local police are only encouraged to notify the FBI about hate crimes, and it is not a mandatory.
