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You mention this at several points, but that map to me looks 100% skewed towards "where are hate crimes recorded" and "where are hate crimes reported". Meaning, some places that seem to be low incidences of hate crimes are because neither is true: not recorded and thus not reported. There's an odd sense in which the visible clusters on the map are signs of *health*, not signs of trouble: places where there's recording and where thus there's reporting.

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Yes definitely a challenge of measurement for this piece. I'm not sure if I'd go far enough to say that it creates a sign of health, but yes being able to measure it is important

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