Statistics came in and 11,200 law enforcement agencies participated in the data-collection program, the agencies reported a little over 8,000 hate crime incidents. That is about one hate crime per hour. Violent acts motivated by racial or ethnic people, or groups are crimes because congress has the constitutional authority to regulate those variety of acts. In prosecuting crimes the states have played in, the bill is also mindful of the tradition. Local and state officials investigate and prosecute the very great majority of the hate crimes that occur in their towns and communities and would continue to do so if this bill would have been