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Hate Crimes Statistics Act  

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  • The Hate Crimes Statistics Act (HCSA) became law in 1990 in response to a number of high-profile bias-motivated crimes that occurred during the 1980s. These crimes became the basis of claims by a variety of interest groups that such actions had reached epidemic proportions and that the crimes did not receive sufficient attention from law enforcement agencies. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement; Hate Crimes Statistics Act]

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