Boston, with its dedicated "Community Disorders unit", sniffed out 161 hate crimes last year.
Storylines touched on such topics as the Holocaust, hate crimes, violence in schools, drug use, vandalism, drinking and driving, teen pregnancy and homelessness.
A hate crimes bill has nothing to do with sentencing crimes, but has to do with funding.
Some people worry that the election of a black President will provoke a surge in hate crimes in America.
These groups and individuals magnify hate crimes by blacks in order to back their social agenda.
President Barack Obama named a 2009 expanded federal hate crimes law after Shepard and James Byrd Jr., a black man who was chained behind a pickup and dragged to death in Texas.
This week, President Obama signed an expansion of federal law on hate crimes.
And there was no demand that the alleged shooter, Ronald Taylor, be harshly prosecuted under the federal civil rights hate crimes act if he shot the men because they were white.
