Incidents, Offenses, Victims, and Known Offenders
by Bias Motivation, 2004
Bias motivation
 Incidents Offenses Victims1 Known offenders2
Total
 7,649 9,035 9,528 7,145
Single-Bias Incidents
 7,642 9,021 9,514 7,136
Race:
 4,042 4,863 5,119 4,173
Anti-White
 829 998 1,027 1,085
Anti-Black
 2,731 3,281 3,475 2,694
Anti-American Indian/Alaskan Native
 83 97 100 97
Anti-Asian/Pacific Islander
 217 252 266 188
Anti-Multiple Races, Group
 182 235 251 109
Religion:
 1,374 1,480 1,586 604
Anti-Jewish
 954 1,003 1,076 330
Anti-Catholic
 57 57 68 37
Anti-Protestant
 38 43 48 28
Anti-Islamic
 156 193 201 124
Anti-Other Religion
 128 140 147 68
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group
 35 37 39 14
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.
 6 7 7 3
Sexual Orientation:
 1,197 1,406 1,482 1,258
Anti-Male Homosexual
 738 855 902 832
Anti-Female Homosexual
 164 201 212 163
Anti-Homosexual
 245 297 314 224
Anti-Heterosexual
 33 35 36 22
Anti-Bisexual
 17 18 18 17
Ethnicity/National Origin:
 972 1,201 1,254 1,047
Anti-Hispanic
 475 611 646 585
Anti-Other Ethnicity/National Origin
 497 590 608 462
Disability:
 57 71 73 54
Anti-Physical
 23 23 24 16
Anti-Mental
 34 48 49 38

1The term victim may refer to a person, business, institution, or society as a whole.

2The 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

3In a multiple-bias incident two conditions must be met: 1) more than one offense type must occur in the incident
and 2) at least two offense types must be motivated by different biases.

Multiple-Bias Incidents3
 7 14 14 9

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