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Incidents

Victim Type

by Bias Motivation, 2014

Bias motivation	Total incidents	Victim type
Bias motivation	Total incidents	Individual	Business/ financial institution	Government	Religious organization	Society/ public¹	Other/ unknown/ multiple
Total	5,479	4,364	299	144	144	41	487
Single-Bias Incidents	5,462	4,351	297	143	144	41	486
Race	2,568	2,184	127	80	10	23	144
Religion	1,014	477	97	36	122	9	273
Sexual Orientation	1,017	923	28	17	5	3	41
Ethnicity	648	575	32	8	6	1	26
Disability	84	71	6	2	1	2	2
Gender	33	30	0	0	0	3	0
Gender Identity	98	91	7	0	0	0	0
Multiple-Bias Incidents²	17	13	2	1	0	0	1

¹The victim type society/public is collected only in the National Incident-Based Reporting System. See Methodology.
² A multiple-bias incident is an incident in which one or more offense types are motivated by two or more biases.

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