According to of the Article by Cronin, Mcdevitt, Farwell, and Nolan, the issues with measuring the prevalence of hate crime is the lack of training of the different law enforcement agencies in how to identify bias crime. Based on Uniform Crime report, 84 percent of agencies that participate report zero bias incident between 1992 and 2004). In most of the agencies, “officers are not well prepared, so at the time of the report officers make judgements about bias motivation with limited information. Also officers judgments central to the bias crime reporting process because standards are not easy applied in some situations.” (Cronin, Mcdevitt, Farwell, and Nolan, 217) Sometimes the victims don’t recognize that they are victims of hate crime,
