FBI Releases 2008 Hate Crime Statistics
Press Release — Hate Crime Statistics Web Site
— “An analysis of the 7,780 single-bias incidents revealed that 51.3 percent were motivated by a racial bias”
— Anti-Black Racial Hate 2,876, Anti-Jewish Hate 1,013, Anti-Homosexual 1,200, Anti-Hispanic 561
— Anti-Islam Incidents – 105
— Anti-Christian Incidents – 101
Table 1
Incidents, Offenses, Victims, and Known Offenders
by Bias Motivation, 2008
by Bias Motivation, 2008
| Bias motivation | Incidents | Offenses | Victims1 | Known offenders2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 7,783 | 9,168 | 9,691 | 6,927 |
| Single-Bias Incidents | 7,780 | 9,160 | 9,683 | 6,921 |
| Race: | 3,992 | 4,704 | 4,934 | 3,723 |
| Anti-White | 716 | 812 | 829 | 811 |
| Anti-Black | 2,876 | 3,413 | 3,596 | 2,596 |
| Anti-American Indian/Alaskan Native | 54 | 59 | 63 | 61 |
| Anti-Asian/Pacific Islander | 137 | 162 | 170 | 140 |
| Anti-Multiple Races, Group | 209 | 258 | 276 | 115 |
| Religion: | 1,519 | 1,606 | 1,732 | 632 |
| Anti-Jewish | 1,013 | 1,055 | 1,145 | 353 |
| Anti-Catholic | 75 | 75 | 89 | 35 |
| Anti-Protestant | 56 | 60 | 62 | 34 |
| Anti-Islamic | 105 | 123 | 130 | 85 |
| Anti-Other Religion | 191 | 212 | 222 | 90 |
| Anti-Multiple Religions, Group | 65 | 67 | 70 | 33 |
| Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc. | 14 | 14 | 14 | 2 |
| Sexual Orientation: | 1,297 | 1,617 | 1,706 | 1,460 |
| Anti-Male Homosexual | 776 | 948 | 981 | 921 |
| Anti-Female Homosexual | 154 | 194 | 198 | 156 |
| Anti-Homosexual | 307 | 415 | 466 | 336 |
| Anti-Heterosexual | 33 | 33 | 34 | 25 |
| Anti-Bisexual | 27 | 27 | 27 | 22 |
| Ethnicity/National Origin: | 894 | 1,148 | 1,226 | 1,034 |
| Anti-Hispanic | 561 | 735 | 792 | 711 |
| Anti-Other Ethnicity/National Origin | 333 | 413 | 434 | 323 |
| Disability: | 78 | 85 | 85 | 72 |
| Anti-Physical | 22 | 28 | 28 | 26 |
| Anti-Mental | 56 | 57 | 57 | 46 |
| Multiple-Bias Incidents3 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
- 1 The term victim may refer to a person, business, institution, or society as a whole.
- 2 The term known offender does not imply that the identity of the suspect is known, but only that an attribute of the suspect has been identified, which distinguishes him/her from an unknown offender.
- 3 In a multiple-bias incident, two conditions must be met: (a) more than one offense type must occur in the incident and (b) at least two offense types must be motivated by different biases.