Press Release

Hate Crime Statistics Press Release

Distribution

• In 2001, there were 9,730 incidents which involved 11,451 separate offenses.
  
• Of the 9,730 incidents reported, 9,721 were single-bias incidents (incidents involving only one bias motivation). A breakdown of the 9,721 single-bias incidents shows that 44.9 percent were motivated by racial bias, 21.6 percent were driven by prejudice against an ethnicity or national origin, 18.8 percent resulted from a bias against a particular religion, 14.3 percent involved a bias against sexual-orientation, and 0.4 percent were motivated by a disability bias.

Victims

• There were 12,020 victims of hate crime in 2001. Of that total, 11,998 were victims of single-bias incidents. Of the 11,998 victims, 46.2 percent were victims of racial prejudice, 22.0 percent were victims of ethnicity or national origin bias, 17.7 percent were targets of religious intolerance, 13. 9 percent were attacked because of sexual orientation, and 0.3 percent were victims of a disability bias.
  
• Ten of the hate crime victims were murdered in 2001.
  

Offenders

• Law enforcement agencies reported 9,239 known offenders in connection with the 9,730 incidents reported in 2001. (A known offender does not imply that the identity of the suspect is known, but only that the suspect's race is known.) The majority of known hate crime offenders, 65.5 percent, were white; 20.4 percent were black; 8.2 percent were of unknown race; and the remainder were of other races or were members of a group that consisted of offenders of varying races.
  

Participation

• In 2001, 11,987 law enforcement agencies contributed hate crime data to the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, and approximately 17.6 percent of those agencies submitted hate crime incident reports to the FBI indicating that at least one hate crime occurred in their jurisdictions. These figures indicate a slight increase over the number of agencies submitting data in 2000.