2019 Hate Crimes Statistics
FBI Releases 2019 Hate Crime Statistics
The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program serves as the national repository for crime data voluntarily collected and submitted by law enforcement. Its primary objective is to generate reliable information for use in law enforcement administration, operation, and management. The 2019 hate crimes data, submitted by 15,588 law enforcement agencies, provide information about the offenses, victims, offenders, and locations of hate crimes. Of these agencies who submitted incident reports, there were 7,314 hate crime incidents involving 8,559 offenses.
Below are some highlights from the data. The full report can be viewed here:
https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2019.
Victims of Hate Crime Incidents
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Bias Motivation Categories for Victims of Single-bias Incidents in 2019 |
Single-bias Incident Bias Motivations by Category in 2019
Offenses by Crime Category | Known Offenders | Location Type |
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Among the 8,552 hate crime offenses reported:
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Of the 6,406 known offenders:
Other races accounted for the remaining known offenders. Of the 5,443 known offenders for whom ethnicity was reported:
Of the 5,599 known offenders for whom ages were known:
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Law enforcement agencies may specify the location of an offense within a hate crime incident as 1 of 46 location designations.
The remaining 27.3% of hate crime incidents took place at other or multiple locations.
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Bias Motivation Categories for Victims of Single-bias Incidents in 2019: This is a pie chart showing the percentage of bias motivation categories for victims of single-bias incidents in 2019. They are as follows:
Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry/Bias | 57.6% |
Religion | 20.1% |
Sexual Orientation | 16.7% |
Gender Identity | 2.7% |
Disability | 2.0% |
Gender | 0.9% |
Single-bias Incident Bias Motivations by Category:This is a bar chart comparing the 2018 and 2019 data for bias motivation categories for single bias incidents. They are as follows:
Bias Motivation Categories | 2018 | 2019 |
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Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry/Bias | 4,047 | 3,963 |
Religion | 1,419 | 1,521 |
Sexual Orientation | 1,196 | 1,195 |
Gender Identity | 168 | 198 |
Disability | 159 | 157 |
Gender | 47 | 69 |
Total | 7,036 | 7,103 |