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Table 13

TENNESSEE

Hate Crime Incidents

per Bias Motivation and Quarter

by Agency, 2015

Agency Type Agency name Number of incidents per bias motivation Number of incidents per quarter Population1
Race/
Ethnicity/
Ancestry 		Religion Sexual
orientation 		Disability Gender Gender
Identity 		1st
quarter 		2nd
quarter 		3rd
quarter 		4th
quarter
Total 157 28 26 5 1 4
Cities 83 17 22 5 1 1
Atoka 8 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 2 2 9,042
Chapel Hill 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1,464
Chattanooga 10 6 0 0 0 0 2 1 6 7 174,969
Clarksville 10 3 2 1 0 0 4 4 4 4 150,319
Cleveland 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 43,650
Cookeville 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 31,509
Cowan 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1,713
Crossville 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 11,445
Dover 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1,433
Dunlap 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5,131
Dyersburg 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 16,766
Elizabethton 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 14,265
Fairview 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 8,331
Germantown 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 39,361
Greeneville 5 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 15,031
Harriman 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6,182
Huntland 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 858
Johnson City 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 66,369
Jonesborough 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5,283
Kingsport 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 53,091
Knoxville 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 185,638
Lafayette 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 5,075
Lawrenceburg 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 10,514
Lebanon 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 30,266
Manchester 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10,404
Mason 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1,598
McMinnville 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 13,622
Memphis 7 1 8 0 0 1 3 4 7 3 657,936
Millington 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 11,061
Moscow 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 534
Munford 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6,082
Nashville Metropolitan 7 2 6 0 0 0 1 6 6 2 658,029
Niota 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 718
Portland 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12,396
Rockwood 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5,396
Savannah 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 7,069
Smithville 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 4,694
Winchester 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 8,555
Universities and Colleges 3 4 1 0 0 0
East Tennessee State University 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 14,434
Tennessee Technological University 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 11,339
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 11,670
Vanderbilt University 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 12,686
Metropolitan Counties 59 6 3 0 0 0
Blount 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Bradley 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Cheatham 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Hamilton 3 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 1
Hickman 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Jefferson 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Knox 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Roane 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
Robertson 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Rutherford 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Shelby 28 2 0 0 0 0 12 6 2 10
Sullivan 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Tipton 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Washington 18 0 0 0 0 0 9 8 1 0
Williamson 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Nonmetropolitan Counties 3 0 0 0 0 0
Bedford 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Gibson 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Lawrence 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
State Police Agencies 9 1 0 0 0 3
Department of Safety 9 1 0 0 0 3 4 2 2 5
  • 1 Population figures are published only for the cities. The figures listed for the universities and colleges are student enrollment and were provided by the United States Department of Education for the 2014 school year, the most recent available. The enrollment figures include full-time and part-time students.

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