Emily Masters reports for The Albany Times-Union that New York doubled its number of biased crime specialists with dozens of troopers finished hate crimes investigation training. New York police are working against a six-fold increase in reports of hate crimes. "We've noticed a definite uptick," State Police First Deputy Superintendent Christopher Fiore said. There have been 60 reports in the past six months, State Police spokesman Beau Duffy said, with 15 to 20 hate crime the typical average per year before this latest increase. reports in a year. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has launched a State Police Hate Crime Unit, and more than 120 members of law enforcement from the state, county, and local level attended the four-day New York State Hate Crimes Investigation School last week in Albany. "These are all trained investigators, so this is additional training specific to hate crimes investigations," Fiore said. Read the full story in The Albany Times-Union.