Monday, December 12, 2011

Hate Crime Demographics

Among the 6,628 hate crimes reported to police in 2010, here is a breakdown of the number by the "bias motivation" for the crime...

Anti-black: 2,201 (33%)
Anti-homosexual: 1,230 (19%)
Anti-Jewish: 887 (13%)
Anti-white: 575 (9%)
Anti-Hispanic: 534 (8%)

The remaining 1,201 hate crimes include anti-Asian (150 incidents), anti-Islamic (160), anti-disability (43), anti-heterosexual (21), and 4 incidents involving more than one bias.

Source: FBI statistics cited in Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online

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