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Table 8

Incidents

Victim Type

by Bias Motivation, 2014

Bias motivation Total
incidents 		Victim type
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
  • 1 The 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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