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Home Hate Crime 2010 Tables Table 8

Table 8

Incidents
Victim Type
by Bias Motivation, 2010
Bias motivation Total
incidents
Victim type
Individual Business/
financial
institution
Government Religious
organization
Society/
public
1
Other/
unknown/
multiple
Total 6,628 5,236 331 267 188 9 597
Single-Bias Incidents 6,624 5,232 331 267 188 9 597
Race 3,135 2,574 167 162 20 7 205
Religion 1,322 678 112 74 163 0 295
Sexual Orientation 1,277 1,177 30 18 1 0 51
Ethnicity/National Origin 847 764 21 13 4 1 44
Disability 43 39 1 0 0 1 2
Multiple-Bias Incidents2 4 4 0 0 0 0 0
  • 1 The victim type society/public is collected only in the National Incident-Based Reporting System. See Methodology.
  • 2 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.

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