The FBI has released Hate Crime Statistics 2019 which is the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s latest compilation about bias-motivated incidents throughout the nation.
The 2019 data which was submitted by 15,588 law enforcement agencies across the nation, provides information about the offenses, victims, offenders, and locations of hate crimes.
In total U.S. law enforcement agencies submitted incident reports involving 7,314 criminal incidents and 8,559 related offenses reported as being motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity.
(Some disturbing new statistics came out Monday from the FBI: hate crimes are up in the United States. Courtesy of 13News Now and YouTube. Posted on Nov 16, 2020.)
Be advised that the UCR Program does not estimate offenses for the jurisdictions of agencies which do not submit reports.
Highlights of the 2019 Hate Crime Statistics are as follows:*
Victims of Hate Crime Incidents
There were 7,103 single-bias incidents involving 8,552 victims.
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A percent distribution of victims by bias type shows that 57.6% of victims were targeted because of the offenders’ race/ethnicity/ancestry bias.
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20.1% were targeted because of the offenders’ religious bias.
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16.7% were victimized because of the offenders’ sexual-orientation bias.
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2.7% were targeted because of the offenders’ gender identity bias.
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2.0% were victimized because of the offenders’ disability bias.
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0.9% were victimized because of the offenders’ gender bias.
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There were 211 multiple-bias hate crime incidents, which involved 260 victims.
Offenses by Crime Category
Of the 5,512 hate crime offenses classified as crimes against persons in 2019.
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40% were for intimidation.
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36.7% were for simple assault.
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21% were for aggravated assault.
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51 were for murder.
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30 were for rape.
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3 offenses of human trafficking relating to commercial sex acts, were reported as a hate crime.
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The remaining 41 hate crime offenses were reported in the category of other.
There were 2,811 hate crime offenses classified as crimes against property.
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76.6% were acts of destruction/damage/vandalism.
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Robbery, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, and other offenses accounted for the remaining 23.4% of crimes against property.
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236 additional offenses were classified as crimes against society.
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This crime category represents society’s prohibition against engaging in certain types of activity such as gambling, prostitution, and drug violations, which are typically victimless crimes in which property is not the object.
Known Offenders
In the UCR Program, the term known offender does not imply that the suspect’s identity is known; rather, the term indicates that some aspect of the suspect has been identified, thus distinguishing the suspect from an unknown offender.
Law enforcement agencies specify the number of offenders and, when possible, the race of the offender or offenders as a group.
Beginning in 2013, law enforcement began reporting whether suspects were juveniles or adults, as well as the suspect’s ethnicity when possible.
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Of the 6,406 known offenders, 52.5% were white, and 23.9% were Black or African American.
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Other races accounted for the remaining known offenders: 1.1% were American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.9% were Asian, 0.3% were Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 6.6% were of a group of multiple races.
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The race was unknown for 14.6%.
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Of the 5,443 known offenders for whom ethnicity was reported, 33.1% were Not Hispanic or Latino, 10% were Hispanic or Latino, and 1.9% were in a group of multiple ethnicities.
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Ethnicity was unknown for 55.0% of these offenders.
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Of the 5,599 known offenders for whom ages were known, 84.6% were 18 years of age or older.
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Locations of Hate Crimes
Law enforcement agencies may specify the location of an offense within a hate crime incident as 1 of 46 location designations.
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In 2019 24.6% occurred in or near residences/homes.
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18.2% occurred on highways/roads/alleys/streets/sidewalks.
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9.6% occurred at schools/colleges.
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4.7% happened at parking/drop lots/garages.
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4.4% took place in churches/synagogues/temples/mosques.
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The location was reported as other/unknown for 11.2% of hate crime incidents.
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The remaining 27.3% of hate crime incidents took place at other or multiple locations.
* Due to rounding, percentage breakdowns may not add to 100%.
The 2019 Hate Crime Statistics and the upcoming edition of the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) due to be released before the end of 2020, are the final UCR crime data publications to be released in the traditional format on fbi.gov.
As of January 1, 2021, UCR data will be published exclusively to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer. The traditional publications for 2019 and previous years will remain available on fbi.gov for the foreseeable future.
To view the full 2019 Hate Crime Statistics report is available at https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2019.
FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) Named a Finalist in 2020 ‘ASTORS’ Awards
The mission of the Internet Crime Complaint Center, also known as IC3, is to provide the public with a reliable and convenient reporting mechanism to submit information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concerning suspected Internet-facilitated criminal activity and to develop alliances with law enforcement and industry partners.
Information is analyzed and disseminated for investigative and intelligence purposes to law enforcement and for public awareness.
(Actress Kirsten Vangsness, who plays tech-savvy FBI analyst Penelope Garcia on the show Criminal Minds, is intended to promote awareness of Internet crimes and scams and encourages the public to report suspected criminal cyber activity to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). Courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and YouTube.)
Since 2000, the IC3 has received complaints crossing the spectrum of cyber crime matters, to include online fraud in its many forms including intellectual property rights (IPR) matters, computer intrusions (hacking), economic espionage (theft of trade secrets), online extortion, international money laundering, identity theft, and a growing list of Internet facilitated crimes.
It has become increasingly evident that, regardless of the label placed on a cyber crime matter, the potential for it to overlap with another referred matter is substantial.
Therefore, the IC3, formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC), was renamed in October 2003 to better reflect the broad character of such matters having an Internet, or cyber, nexus referred to the IC3, and to minimize the need for one to distinguish “Internet Fraud” from other potentially overlapping cyber crimes.
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