In 1990, Congress passed the Hate Crime Statistics Act, which required the attorney general to collect data “about crimes which manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity.” The attorney general delegated the responsibility to the Director of the FBI, who, in turn, assigned the task to the Bureau’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. New to the 2015 Hate Crime Statistics report is the inclusion of seven additional religious anti-bias categories (anti-Buddhist, anti-Eastern Orthodox, anti-Hindu, anti-Jehovah’s Witness, anti-Mormon, anti-other Christian, and anti-Sikh), as well as an anti-Arab bias motivation. Of the 5,493 known offenders, 48.4 percent were white, 24.3 percent were black or African-American, and race was unknown for 16.2 percent of the offenders.During 2015, most reported hate crime incidents (31.5 percent) happened in or near residences or homes.
There were 2,338 hate crime offenses classified as crimes against property, and the majority of those (72.6 percent) were acts of destruction/damage/vandalism.Of the 4,482 hate crime offenses classified as crimes against persons, intimidation accounted for 41.3 percent of those offenses, while 37.8 percent involved simple assault and 19.7 percent involved aggravated assault.There were an additional 32 multiple-bias incidents that involved another 52 victims.Of those victims, 59.2 percent were targeted because of a race/ethnicity/ancestry bias 19.7 percent because of a religious bias 17.7 percent because of a sexual orientation bias 1.7 percent because of a gender identity bias 1.2 percent because of a disability bias and 0.4 percent because of a gender bias. There were 5,818 single-bias incidents involving 7,121 victims.This year’s report, which contains data from 14,997 law enforcement agencies, reveals 5,850 criminal incidents and 6,885 related offenses that were motivated by bias against race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity.Īdditional findings in Hate Crime Statistics, 2015 include the following: The 2015 collection marks the 25th anniversary of the Bureau’s work to compile data about bias-motivated crimes, which began in 1990. And today, the Bureau released its latest Hate Crime Statistics report-this one containing data for 2015-that includes information detailing the offenses, victims, offenders, and locations of hate crimes. Hate crimes like these can have a devastating impact upon the communities where they occur, which is one of the reasons why the investigation of hate crimes that fall under federal jurisdiction is the number one priority under the FBI’s civil rights program.īut in addition to its investigative work, the FBI gathers and publishes-through its Uniform Crime Reporting Program-hate crime statistics from law enforcement agencies across the country to help provide an accurate accounting of the problem, by state and nationally. And an Iowa man was convicted of stomping on and kicking the head of an African-American victim. A Virginia man was charged with assaulting a gay victim. Earlier this year, a Florida man pled guilty to threatening to firebomb two mosques.
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