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    'We Need To Evolve': Police Get Help To Improve Hate Crime Tracking

    Bias-motivated crimes are rising, but few police departments are trained to identify them. A group of prosecutors is traveling from city to city, warning officers that ignoring hate crimes is risky.
    by Hannah Allam May 28, 2019 4 minutes
    Cynthia Deitle, a former FBI special agent, trains police officers from two departments in Durham, N.H., on how to identify hate crimes. Deitle is with the Matthew Shepard Foundation, an advocacy group that's part of a traveling workshop to teach law enforcement about state and federal hate-crime laws.

    For the picturesque college town of Durham in southeastern New Hampshire, a reckoning came in 2017.

    That was the year a complaint about the cultural appropriation of Cinco de Mayo spiraled into weeks of racial unrest, a boiling over of tensions that had simmered for years at the University of New Hampshire. Students who called out racist incidents faced a backlash of online bullying, swastikas and slurs, and the vandalism of sculptures that symbolized their cause.

    Student activists blamed UNH leadership for allowing the problem to fester. Their criticism was backed up by the university hadn't reported a single hate incident for more than

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