LAPD Announces ‘Hate Incident’ as New Category for Online Community Reporting

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Police Department expanded its Community Online Reporting Service (CORS) system Jan. 12 to include the category of “hate incidents” in an effort to combat what officials called the “under-reporting of bias-motivated incidents” that fall short of being considered crimes. LAPD Chief Michel Moore announced the expansion to the CORS program at a news conference at police headquarters on Thursday morning. The CORS system was launched in 2016, and allowed community members to file reports on incidents such as traffic collisions and a limited category of crime reports online, Mr. Moore said. During the year of its launch,1,300 reports were submitted through CORS, Mr. Moore said. Since then, CORS has expanded to include nearly two dozen types of reports that community members can file online....