FBI report shows first decrease in hate crimes in 4 years

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The number of hate crime incidents reported to the FBI decreased slightly from 2017 to 2018, after three consecutive years of increases.

According to the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s annual Hate Crime Statistics report, there were a total of 166 hate crimes reported to law enforcement agencies in Arizona.

Agency Hate Crime Reporting by State and Federal, 2018
Participating state/Federal Number of
participating
agencies
Population
covered
Agencies
submitting
incident
reports
Total
number of
incidents
reported
Total 16,039 306,874,326 2,026 7,120
California 736 39,520,441 220 1,063
Michigan 633 9,948,030 190 431
New Jersey 577 8,908,520 180 561
Texas 1,028 27,845,758 127 455
Ohio 547 9,774,082 116 350
Kentucky 414 4,448,098 97 235
Massachusetts 359 6,730,168 79 352
Washington 248 7,479,358 73 506
Tennessee 466 6,737,273 67 170
New York 572 19,348,748 59 523
Florida 651 20,922,562 54 141
Virginia 415 8,510,090 53 143
South Carolina 439 4,960,159 52 111
North Carolina 531 10,330,057 42 140
Kansas 367 2,561,072 38 69
Minnesota 385 5,484,503 38 126
Colorado 217 5,512,017 37 121
Connecticut 97 3,150,064 34 81
Oregon 222 4,012,987 33 118
Illinois 738 11,942,645 31 107
Vermont 89 630,980 27 45
Wisconsin 436 5,767,760 27 52
Indiana 161 3,004,204 24 107
Missouri 604 5,919,676 22 64
West Virginia 251 1,573,786 21 43
Maryland 155 6,039,822 20 49
Arizona 102 7,135,285 19 166
Louisiana 147 3,528,527 18 45
Utah 126 3,068,388 18 33
Oklahoma 417 3,621,189 17 20
Pennsylvania 1,480 12,712,213 15 67
Nebraska 116 1,781,091 14 34
Idaho 106 1,738,946 13 23
South Dakota 130 806,540 13 20
New Hampshire 184 1,317,257 11 13
Delaware 63 962,453 10 16
Arkansas 286 2,874,960 9 13
Georgia 487 8,497,512 9 35
Iowa 228 3,042,074 9 10
Rhode Island 48 1,056,281 9 13
North Dakota 109 760,650 8 10
Maine 133 1,338,404 7 20
Nevada 56 3,034,392 7 33
Montana 108 1,062,359 5 7
Alaska 32 733,747 4 7
Mississippi 35 720,646 4 5
New Mexico 110 1,915,743 3 28
District of Columbia 2 702,455 2 213
Hawaii 1 982,019 1 44
Alabama 98 1,865,517 0 0
Wyoming 57 552,818 0 0

There were 7,036 single-bias hate crimes reported to UCR in 2018. From those incidents, there were 8,646 victims.

The majority of the reported hate crimes were motivated by race, ethnicity, or ancestry bias (59.6 percent). Additional biases included religion (18.7 percent), sexual orientation (16.7 percent), gender identity (2.2 percent), disability (2.1 percent), and gender (0.7 percent).

Religion-based hate crimes decreased by about 8 percent in 2018, with 835 incidents targeting Jews and Jewish institutions, down from 938 incidents in 2017.

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