Mazie Hirono of Hawaiʻi and Susan Collins of Maine have introduced the Improving Reporting to Prevent Hate Act, a bipartisan legislative effort intended to strengthen the accuracy of hate crime reporting nationwide. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ADThe Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2024 Hate Crimes Statistics report documented 11,679 hate crime incidents involving more than 13,768 victims. The proposed legislation would require the Department of Justice to develop a system to assess whether local jurisdictions are reporting credible data on hate crimes. “As hate-based crimes and incidents surge in our country, this legislation is a step toward better combatting these incidents by improving the credibility of hate crime reporting,” Hirono said. “Voluntary hate crime reporting has not worked,” Cook said.