169). A Williams Institute study encouraged police departments to adopt non-discrimination and zero-tolerance policies, policies requiring law enforcement officers to respect individuals' gender identities, specialized LGBT training and prohibiting discrimination of officers based on sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation (Mallory, Hasenbush, & Sears, 2015, p. Many policies and laws are already established to protect minority groups such as the LGBTQ+ community , but it is essential that police departments enforce existing legislation (p. 3 Police departments already monitor hate crimes, but it is relatively new that they break down hate crimes based on their motivation (King et). Winterdyk, 2010, p. 170). By breaking down hate crimes into categories such as race, gender, sexual orientation and religion, police departments are able to better respond to needs based on geography ( Watson, 2015, “the police follow”, para.. 1).