The "hate crime" crisis is totally phony. For one thing, there were no crimes classified as "hate crimes" until a few years ago.
Many police departments didn't start reporting on them until recently.
Now libs all over the country are poring over crimes and pronouncing them "hate crimes." And some are completely trivial. You frowned at some minority at the grocery store. You committed a "hate crime."
The unfortunate fact for liberals is that the great majority of "hate crimes" are committed by members of their pet groups...blacks and Hispanics.