id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_g5s7ynbwwbaxfdz3ogw5j6elqy Ryan D. King Contemporary Hate Crimes, Law Enforcement, and the Legacy of Racial Violence 2009 26 .pdf application/pdf 17046 2261 63 Contemporary Hate Crimes, Law Enforcement, and the Legacy of Racial Violence contemporary law enforcement responses to hate crimes in the United States. research that finds less compliance with federal hate crime laws in southern cities and counties with large black populations (King 2007). We thus test our hypotheses concerning lynching, racial threat, and law enforcement responses to hate crimes while accounting for the level the true number of offenses motivated by bigotry (as used by Medoff 1999) or law enforcement's willingness to execute hate crime statutes that measures the number of anti-black motivated hate crimes reported by police in the in the county (for hate crime reporting) as controls for law enforcement capacity.17 It is plausible that larger policing agencies are better dependent variable, we also control for the number of hate crimes reported by police in a county (or cluster) for the year 2000. ./cache/work_g5s7ynbwwbaxfdz3ogw5j6elqy.pdf ./txt/work_g5s7ynbwwbaxfdz3ogw5j6elqy.txt