Following an overview of hate crimes and police reporting of such crimes, the manual discusses the police response and police-community cooperation for responding to and preventing hate crimes. Based on the experiences of police departments in Los Angeles, Dallas, Boston, Baltimore, New York, and Connecticut, as well as input from the International Association of Police Chiefs, the manual covers hate crime statistics, a hate crime policy model, responses to hate crimes training bulletin, rapid response strategy, policy and procedures for handling race- and religion-based incidents, bias investigating units, and bias crime report forms. The final two substantive chapters discuss the Federal hate crime hotline and the Network of Neighbors/Network of Teens in Montgomery County, Maryland. The manual also includes current hate crime legislation, resource organizations and persons, and an overview of R.A.V. v. St. Paul, the U.S. Supreme Court's recent hate crime ruling.