CM Krishnan questions Hispanic Federation on underreporting of hate crimes
CM Krishnan asks about HF's experience reducing underreporting. Herrera describes a multi-pronged approach including CBO-led anti-bias education, bilingual PSA campaigns, and radio mentions. A 2023 survey of 10,000 New Yorkers found 31% didn't know what legally constituted a hate crime and 78% who had experienced one never reported it.
Thank you.
And also, I just have a question for the Hispanic Federation.
Your work to reduce on the reporting of hate crimes,
What has your experience been?
In terms of, I'm sorry, if you could elaborate a little further.
So the work, specifically your work to reduce underreporting of the hate crimes that have been happening.
Right.
I just wanted to know what your experience has been.
So there are two approaches to that.
The first is through our CBOs who intimately pack a lot of anti-bias work into a lot of the...
already ongoing curriculum that they employ in their communities.
Of course, even as an institution such as ours, everyone has blinders on, so we refer best to the organizations that are already based in the communities that we're looking to serve.
And from HF's standpoint, we've also reached out on several outreach campaigns,
bilingual PSA campaigns, both in English and Spanish, in key population junctions, as well as had several mentions of anti-bias, anti-discriminatory campaigns over the radio.
And over, just to reference from 2023,
I apologize.
So in 2023, when we deployed 10 community canvassers and surveyed more than 10,000 New Yorkers, we saw that 31% didn't know what legally constituted a hate crime.
And then after identifying which 78% already experienced that, they had experienced one and never reported it.
So with that, a lot of...
I apologize.
I'm just trying to get my words together because it's a multi, so it's a multi-pronged approach.
With that, we've seen that in the communities and the different populations that we affect, be that from different sexuality, race, creed,
a lot of them start to realize the fact that they had already experienced a hate crime, that they never really understood because of the banality of it,
how profound and how pervasive it can be on a day-to-day interaction.
So that was something that, from our experience, is something that's far too prevalent, if that better answers your question.
It definitely does, and thank you for describing it, because I know oftentimes those have been close to the pain.
You know, if they have a seat at the table, they can, you know, really, really do the best work, especially when it comes to fixing this issue.
Just have one more.