Incidents, Offenses, Victims, and Known Offenders

by Bias Motivation, 2016

Bias motivation	Incidents	Offenses	Victims¹	Known offenders²
Total	6,121	7,321	7,615	5,770
Single-Bias Incidents	6,063	7,227	7,509	5,727
Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry:	3,489	4,229	4,426	3,383
Anti-White	720	876	909	831
Anti-Black or African American	1,739	2,122	2,220	1,588
Anti-American Indian or Alaska Native	154	161	169	118
Anti-Asian	113	131	137	123
Anti-Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	9	9	9	8
Anti-Multiple Races, Group	136	178	190	104
Anti-Arab	51	56	57	60
Anti-Hispanic or Latino	344	449	483	380
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry	223	247	252	171
Religion:	1,273	1,538	1,584	859
Anti-Jewish	684	834	862	421
Anti-Catholic	62	63	65	45
Anti-Protestant	15	20	22	12
Anti-Islamic (Muslim)	307	381	388	243
Anti-Other Religion	74	90	91	53
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group	34	48	48	20
Anti-Mormon	7	8	8	3
Anti-Jehovah's Witness	2	3	3	1
Anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Other)	28	28	30	23
Anti-Other Christian	36	37	39	13
Anti-Buddhist	1	1	1	0
Anti-Hindu	10	12	12	11
Anti-Sikh	7	7	8	10
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.	6	6	7	4
Sexual Orientation:	1,076	1,218	1,255	1,225
Anti-Gay (Male)	675	765	787	806
Anti-Lesbian	124	141	147	127
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)	234	262	271	254
Anti-Heterosexual	20	23	23	13
Anti-Bisexual	23	27	27	25
Disability:	70	76	77	67
Anti-Physical	26	29	30	29
Anti-Mental	44	47	47	38
Gender:	31	36	36	28
Anti-Male	7	10	10	7
Anti-Female	24	26	26	21
Gender Identity:	124	130	131	165
Anti-Transgender	105	111	111	149
Anti-Gender Non-Conforming	19	19	20	16
Multiple-Bias Incidents³	58	94	106	43

¹ The term victim may refer to an individual, business/financial institution, government entity, religious organization, or society/public as a whole.
² The term known offender does not imply that the identity of the suspect is known, but only that an attribute of the suspect has been identified, which distinguishes him/her from an unknown offender.
³ 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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