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Needs Assessment Survey - Hate Crime Investigations Training

Welcome to the Needs Assessment Survey for
Hate Crime Investigations Training

You have been selected as a participant for this short 16 question survey.  This survey will take you no more than 10 minutes to complete.  Your feedback and help by completing this survey will be used to shape the course and identify training needs for Hate Crime Investigations. 

Hate crimes target individuals for characteristics they cannot change, such as race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and disabilities.  The brutality of these crimes and victims’ sense of being violated for something they cannot change makes them one of the most dehumanizing crimes.  Hate crimes not only terrorize victims, but their group, spreading fear throughout the community.  Officers’ abilities to identify and investigate these crimes will not only restore stability to the communities they serve, but also assist victims in their recovery.

I thank you for your input and time in helping with the development of the content for this this course. 

1.How much training; including but not limited to formal (college, university, academy), and/or non-formal (briefings conferences, seminars), have you received in identifying hate crimes, interviewing witnesses, and victims of these crimes?(Required.)
2.If you have received hate crimes training, please check where it was received:
3.How do you rate yourself in identifying a hate crime when responding to a call or during the course of an investigation?(Required.)
4.Please rate the following topics and delivery methods you believe should be included in a hate crimes training course; designed to provide officers with knowledge in how to identify and investigate these crimes:(Required.)
Rating
Federal and State statutes
Identifying hate crimes
Creating solutions to mitigating hate crimes within a community
Interviewing community stakeholders
Typology of hate crime perpetrators
Victimology
Resources for victims
Case studies
Guest speaker: Reformed hate crime perpetrator
Guest speaker:  Victim
Collection of evidence
Interviewing witnesses
Interviewing suspects
Interviewing victims
Community relations and hate crimes awareness
Museum of Tolerance visit/tour
5.Is there any topic missing in Question 5 that you feel should be included in a hate crimes training course?  If so, would you please explain in the comment box?(Required.)
6.Please select one of the following responses that most closely reflects your attitude towards identifying and investigating hate crimes when responding to a call or during the course of an investigation:(Required.)
7.I can immediately identify language, symbols, and artifacts displayed by hate crime perpetrators.(Required.)
8.I can easily identify hate crimes when answering calls or during an unrelated investigation based on crime scene evidence and witness/victim/suspect interviews.(Required.)
9.How many years have you served as a police officer; including all assignments such as patrol, detective, investigator, task forces?(Required.)
10.How many sworn officers are in your agency?(Required.)
11.If afforded the opportunity by my agency, I would attend a hate crimes course to attain the knowledge and skills to efficiently identify a hate crime, collect evidence, understand laws pertaining to these crimes, investigating these crimes, and victim care/resources.(Required.)
12.Please answer the following if you are in a position to make training decisions for staff to attend training.  If not, please answer N/A.
I would send my officers/detectives/investigators to a three day hate crimes investigation course for law enforcement.
13.Please answer this question if you answered "yes" to the previous question.
How many officers would you possibly send to this course within a fiscal year?
14.If  you answered “No” to question 12, please explain in 25 words or less as to why you would not send officers/detectives/investigators to this course?
15.Is there additional information or comments you would like to add.
16.If you would like to be further involved in the design and development of this course, please provide your contact information below.
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