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.