Incidents, Offenses, Victims, and Known Offenders

by Bias Motivation, 2012

Bias motivation	Incidents	Offenses	Victims¹	Known offenders²
Total	5,796	6,718	7,164	5,331
Single-Bias Incidents	5,790	6,705	7,151	5,322
Race:	2,797	3,297	3,467	2,822
Anti-White	657	739	763	756
Anti-Black	1,805	2,180	2,295	1,771
Anti-American Indian/Alaskan Native	101	109	115	92
Anti-Asian/Pacific Islander	121	134	143	119
Anti-Multiple Races, Group	113	135	151	84
Religion:	1,099	1,166	1,340	484
Anti-Jewish	674	696	836	232
Anti-Catholic	70	79	86	27
Anti-Protestant	33	34	35	24
Anti-Islamic	130	149	155	110
Anti-Other Religion	92	107	115	36
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group	88	89	101	44
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.	12	12	12	11
Sexual Orientation:	1,135	1,318	1,376	1,281
Anti-Male Homosexual	605	720	741	754
Anti-Female Homosexual	146	162	175	116
Anti-Homosexual	321	369	393	358
Anti-Heterosexual	24	26	26	20
Anti-Bisexual	39	41	41	33
Ethnicity/National Origin:	667	822	866	639
Anti-Hispanic	384	488	514	393
Anti-Other Ethnicity/National Origin	283	334	352	246
Disability:	92	102	102	96
Anti-Physical	18	20	20	16
Anti-Mental	74	82	82	80
Multiple-Bias Incidents³	6	13	13	9

¹ The term victim may refer to a person, business, institution, or society as a whole.
² The 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.
³ 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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