Incidents, Offenses, Victims, and Known Offenders

by Bias Motivation, 2017

Bias motivation	Incidents	Offenses	Victims¹	Known offenders²
Total	7,175	8,437	8,828	6,370
Single-Bias Incidents	7,106	8,126	8,493	6,307
Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry:	4,131	4,832	5,060	3,747
Anti-White	741	844	864	758
Anti-Black or African American	2,013	2,358	2,458	1,742
Anti-American Indian or Alaska Native	251	281	321	228
Anti-Asian	131	152	165	108
Anti-Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	16	17	18	10
Anti-Multiple Races, Group	180	215	229	100
Anti-Arab	102	128	131	100
Anti-Hispanic or Latino	427	525	552	491
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry	270	312	322	210
Religion:	1,564	1,679	1,749	1,009
Anti-Jewish	938	976	1,017	523
Anti-Catholic	73	75	76	59
Anti-Protestant	40	40	40	15
Anti-Islamic (Muslim)	273	314	325	231
Anti-Other Religion	76	82	86	56
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group	47	54	57	35
Anti-Mormon	15	15	15	8
Anti-Jehovah's Witness	7	13	13	6
Anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Other)	23	23	27	14
Anti-Other Christian	27	31	32	18
Anti-Buddhist	8	9	12	10
Anti-Hindu	11	15	15	10
Anti-Sikh	20	24	26	18
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.	6	8	8	6
Sexual Orientation:	1,130	1,303	1,338	1,250
Anti-Gay (Male)	679	758	774	778
Anti-Lesbian	126	159	164	129
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)	268	321	333	282
Anti-Heterosexual	32	37	37	28
Anti-Bisexual	25	28	30	33
Disability:	116	128	160	124
Anti-Physical	32	35	37	31
Anti-Mental	84	93	123	93
Gender:	46	53	54	40
Anti-Male	22	25	26	21
Anti-Female	24	28	28	19
Gender Identity:	119	131	132	137
Anti-Transgender	106	118	119	127
Anti-Gender Non-Conforming	13	13	13	10
Multiple-Bias Incidents³	69	311	335	63

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 the suspect's identity is known; rather, the term indicates some aspect of the suspect was identified, thus distinguishing the suspect 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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