The Indianapolis Star brings the encouraging news that the Indianapolis police department has "vowed to step up efforts to identify and report hate crimes" after the LGBT community reacted in outrage over two recent double homicides and IMPD's seeming disregard for the community.
Indiana has a "hate crimes reporting" law, but not an actual "hate crimes" law. Indy police didn't report anything in 2006 and reported extremely low numbers for 2007 and 2008. A local gay Republican blog,...
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