Because of training, not apathy. Nearly half of New Zealand hate crimes downgraded on police database | New Zealand
Hate crimes in New Zealand are being downgraded from what should be criminal offences because most police personnel do not know how to enter them into their database.
According to the police annual report (pdf) on data quality, 43% of hate crime complaints have been downgraded. These included racially motivated abuse, violence, threats or intimidation.
Because the cops and other "front line personnel" don't know how to enter stuff into a database.
Cops are stupid, not dishonest or prejudiced. So that's something.
And it absolutely could not be the case that cops, and especially the higher-ranking ones, are rated and/or promoted based on the statistics, a la Compstat. Because that NEVER lead to cooking the books in anyplace like New York City. </sarcasm>
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