EXCLUSIVE: Part 3: Police, sheriffs launch initiatives to combat hate One family's grief leads to fight against hateful acts, expanded hate crimes laws Share Updated: 5:00 PM EDT May 13, 2021 One family's grief leads to fight against hateful acts, expanded hate crimes laws Share Updated: 5:00 PM EDT May 13, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript at that time the other day. Besides, this one has brought me such joy and happiness. Second Lieutenant Richard Collins the third took an oath that day to stand watch over his country when he wouldn't stand down. Wouldn't yield to a white man holding a knife in his hand and hate in his heart. Collins died killed by 22 year old Sean Urbanski Collins had just taken that oath to his country two days before his murder. Yeah, Don and Rick Collins. Richard's parents spoke to us in the same hall at Buoy State University where their only son took his oath. And this is him at one of the military balls. So he was all about the service Collins murder and his parents advocacy led the state of Maryland to expand the definition of a hate crime last year. At the time of Collins's death, the law was too narrow to also try Urbanski of a hate crime charge, even though the judge said it's sentencing quote, the logical conclusion is that race was a factor. It's well past time for this nation to live up to its credo that we're all created equal. You go to sleep thinking, what is it that I can do to further this cause? And this passion that's in the very bowels of me. Can't stop. Won't stop with their private foundation to rid this wonderful country of the hate. They use their voice to push for more preventative measures and stiffer deterrence. We can't be quiet. Others are speaking up now to police chiefs and sheriffs across the country told us they're launching new initiatives to combat the rise in hate from dedicated units at a department in pennsylvania and in Winston, Salem north Carolina. It's invaluable to me, it's priceless to a social media campaign at a department in texas, to new training for officers at a city in Missouri and to a human relations committee in Maynard massachusetts. The more information people have, the less hate there will be the Chiefs and Sheriffs outlined those new programs in their responses to our exclusive national investigative unit survey We sent to 14,000 law enforcement agencies in all 50 states, but of those who responded, only 15 said they were starting new hate initiatives and more than four in 1042 admitted. They don't know if hate incidents in their own communities have increased or decreased, leaving a knowledge gap, experts say, waiting to be filled. Mhm. But we've learned help is on the way. This is what the screen looks like when you first enter a hate crime, correct. Dr Jeff Greenwald, director of the Terrorism Research Center at the University of Arkansas, helps run the extremist crime database partly funded by the U. S. Justice Department. It catalogues hate crimes and later this year will expand for the first time to cover plots as well, giving law enforcement and prosecutors a new resource to fight hate in the homeland. We can give them the tools in order to identify patterns that are indicative of escalation of violence. If you don't know what to look for, how can you prevent the next attack? Exactly. The only way to know what to look for is to create these large scale relational databases and study them in depth. You can't walk away from them from this rick and Don Collins returned to the site of their son's murder. Often every year at the exact moment of their son's death. Soon a memorial will be placed here just as permanent as the family's mission against hate. We're still fighting and we will continue to fight because we are patriots and we are americans and we're not gonna let anyone tell us any different. The Collins family still standing watch. I love you, baby boy in Washington. I'm chief national investigative correspondent Mark Albert.