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Table 13, Data Declaration

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Table 13, Data Declaration

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Hate Crime Incidents, per Bias Motivation and Quarter, by State and Agency,
2010

The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting Program’s Hate Crime
Statistics Program.

General comments

  • This table presents the data from those agencies that reported one or more hate
    crime incidents occurred in their respective jurisdictions during 1 or more
    quarters in 2010. The data are distributed by bias motivation and quarter.
  • The Hate Crime Statistics Program collects data about both single-bias and
    multiple-bias hate crimes. A single-bias incident is defined as an incident in
    which one or more offense types are motivated by the same bias. A multiple-bias
    incident is defined as an incident in which more than one offense type occurs and
    at least two offense types are motivated by different biases.
  •  Blanks in any of the four columns under Number of incidents per quarter
    indicate that an agency did not submit a report for that particular quarter.

Caution to users

Valid assessments about crime, including hate crime, are possible only with careful study
and analysis of the various conditions affecting each local law enforcement jurisdiction.
(See Variables Affecting Crime.) In addition, some data in this publication may not be
comparable to those in prior editions of Hate Crime Statistics because of differing levels
of participation from year to year. Therefore, the reader is cautioned against making
simplistic comparisons between the statistical data of this program and that of others
with differing methodologies or even comparing individual reporting units solely on the
basis of their agency type.

Methodology

The data used in creating this table were from all law enforcement agencies that
submitted either of the following: (1) at least one National Incident-Based Reporting
System Group A Incident Report, a Group B Arrest Report, or a Zero Report for at least
1 month of the calendar year; or (2) at least one Hate Crime Incident Report and/or a
Quarterly Hate Crime Report. The published data, therefore, do not necessarily
represent reports from each participating agency for 12 months or 4 quarters.

Population estimation

For the 2010 population estimates used in this table, the FBI computed individual rates
of growth from one year to the next for every city/town and county using 2000 decennial
population counts and 2001 through 2009 population estimates from the U.S. Census
Bureau. Each agency’s rates of growth were averaged; that average was then applied and
added to its 2009 Census population estimate to derive the agency’s 2010 population
estimate. The figures used for universities and colleges are student enrollments that
were provided by the United States Department of Education for the 2009 school year,
the most recent available. The enrollment figures include full-time and part-time
students.