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“Many law enforcement agencies didn’t submit their (hate crime) data to the FBI.”
Kirsten Gillibrand U.S. Senator, D-N.Y.. a speech. Claim dated 20 Mar 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisTrue

What PolitiFact found

Law enforcement agency participation in the FBI’s hate crime data collection is well short of 100%. A bit over one-fifth of agencies nationwide failed to send hate crime data to the FBI.

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In short

Kirsten Gillibrand (U.S. Senator, D-N.Y.) made this claim around 20 March 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 26 April 2023, 37 days later. Its rating was “True”.

Kirsten Gillibrand has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 2 true.

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