From the Seattle PI:
When they’ve made local headlines, the victims were gay men on Capitol Hill, black students walking from school and Sikhs pummeled and called terrorists. They happened outside bars, inside convenience stores and out in front of city schools.
But according to a recent city audit, they happen even more often than we thought. And nearly every Seattle neighborhood has had at least one hate crime reported on its streets in the past two years.
For the most part, the first city audit of Seattle Enforcement of Bias Crimes credited officials for responses demonstrating a no-tolerance-of-intolerance policy. But it also said that police need to do a better job tracking hate crimes and called for a more coordinated effort from city agencies to prevent them.
Read the rest of this article and find a link to the full report at http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/376022_hatecrimes22.html
