RACHEL GLICKHOUSE:

One thing we're doing is going straight to the public. One reason for that is that more than half of the crime victims don't report to the police. So we're hoping that we can gather information that's falling through the cracks that is not even making it to police. So on documentinghate.com we have a form that the public can fill out if they have been a victim or a witness of a hate crime or a hate incident. And that gets fed into a database and a journalist will follow up with them to verify their story. We also sent hundreds of Freedom of Information Act request to police departments around the country asking for their high crime numbers since 2010 and that's what we used to compare to the FBI numbers and see what they were coming back with. And our reporting partners, we have more than 130 media organizations around the country working with us and we give them those tips coming in from the public. We also work with civil rights organizations that give us tips that they can follow up on. And these Freedom of Information Act request responses that come back to us so they can see what's happening in their city.