The federal government and 45 states have laws criminalizing bias-motivated crimes, or hate crimes. But how those laws are enforced largely depends on the law enforcement officer who responds to the call.

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This report is part of a project produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21 initiative, a national investigative reporting project by top college journalism students and recent graduates from across the country and headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.