Summary of Hate Crime Statistics, 2006 and 2012
Updated August 5, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
In 2012, 1,730 law enforcement agencies reported 5,796 hate crime incidents involving 6,718 offenses.
Bias motivation | Number of incidents 2012 | Number of incidents 2006 | Number of offenses 2012 | Number of offenses 2006 | Number of victims 2012 | Number of victims 2006 | Number of known offenders 2012 | Number of known offenders 2006 |
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Total | 5,796 | 7,722 | 6,718 | 9,080 | 7,164 | 9,652 | 5,331 | 7,330 |
Single-Bias Incidents | 5,790 | n.a. | 6,705 | n.a. | 7,151 | n.a. | 5,322 | n.a. |
Race: | 2,797 | 4,000 | 3,297 | 4,737 | 3,467 | 5,020 | 2,822 | 3,957 |
Anti-White | 657 | 890 | 739 | 1,008 | 763 | 1,054 | 756 | 1,074 |
Anti-Black | 1,805 | 2,640 | 2,180 | 3,136 | 2,295 | 3,332 | 1,771 | 2,437 |
Anti-American Indian/Alaskan Native | 101 | 60 | 109 | 72 | 115 | 75 | 92 | 72 |
Anti-Asian/Pacific Islander | 121 | 181 | 134 | 230 | 143 | 239 | 119 | 181 |
Anti-Multiple Races, Group | 113 | 229 | 135 | 291 | 151 | 320 | 84 | 193 |
Religion: | 1,099 | 1,462 | 1,166 | 1,597 | 1,340 | 1,750 | 484 | 705 |
Anti-Jewish | 674 | 967 | 696 | 1,027 | 836 | 1,144 | 232 | 362 |
Anti-Catholic | 70 | 76 | 79 | 81 | 86 | 86 | 27 | 44 |
Anti-Protestant | 33 | 56 | 34 | 62 | 35 | 65 | 24 | 35 |
Anti-Islamic | 130 | 156 | 149 | 191 | 155 | 208 | 110 | 147 |
Anti-Other Religion | 92 | 124 | 107 | 140 | 115 | 147 | 36 | 63 |
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group | 88 | 73 | 89 | 88 | 101 | 92 | 44 | 49 |
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc. | 12 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 5 |
Sexual Orientation: | 1,135 | 1,195 | 1,318 | 1,415 | 1,376 | 1,472 | 1,281 | 1,380 |
Anti-Male Homosexual | 605 | 747 | 720 | 881 | 741 | 913 | 754 | 914 |
Anti-Female Homosexual | 146 | 163 | 162 | 192 | 175 | 202 | 116 | 154 |
Anti-Homosexual | 321 | 238 | 369 | 293 | 393 | 307 | 358 | 268 |
Anti-Heterosexual | 24 | 26 | 26 | 28 | 26 | 29 | 20 | 26 |
Anti-Bisexual | 39 | 21 | 41 | 21 | 41 | 21 | 33 | 18 |
Ethnicity/National Origin: | 667 | 984 | 822 | 1,233 | 866 | 1,305 | 639 | 1,209 |
Anti-Hispanic | 384 | 576 | 488 | 770 | 514 | 819 | 393 | 802 |
Anti-Other Ethnicity/National Origin | 283 | 408 | 334 | 463 | 352 | 486 | 246 | 407 |
Disability: | 92 | 79 | 102 | 94 | 102 | 95 | 96 | 73 |
Anti-Physical | 18 | 17 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 16 | 17 |
Anti-Mental | 74 | 62 | 82 | 74 | 82 | 74 | 80 | 56 |
Multiple-Bias Incidents1 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 6 |
1. A multiple-bias incident is a hate crime in which two or more offense types were committed as a result of two or more bias motivations.
Source: Crime in the United States, 2006 and 2012, FBI, Uniform Crime Reports.
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