Bias crimes

Covert: Public More Likely To Report Bias, Hate Cases Cooperstown Sees Its First Two Cases Ever By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Although applied in the Village of Cooperstown for the first time this summer – twice – bias laws have been on the books for years, according to Cooperstown Police Chief Mike Covert. What’s changing is public attitudes toward possible racial and homophobic confrontations are changing, he said:  “It’s very unusual, but people aren’t going to put…