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Table 13

TENNESSEE

Hate Crime Incidents

per Bias Motivation and Quarter

by Agency, 2017

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 88 18 21 7 2 0
Cities 61 9 21 6 2 0
Adamsville 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2,207
Alcoa 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10,128
Bartlett 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 58,895
Bolivar 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5,066
Brighton 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2,949
Brownsville 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 9,698
Centerville 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3,564
Chattanooga 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 178,753
Clarksville 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 153,294
Cleveland 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 4 44,778
Collierville 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 49,790
Covington 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 8,909
Crossville 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 11,555
Fairview 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 8,648
Germantown 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 39,086
Greenbrier 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6,853
Greeneville 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 15,065
Jackson 3 0 2 0 0 0 1 3 1 0 67,031
Jamestown 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1,964
Jonesborough 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 5,378
Knoxville 2 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 187,539
Lebanon 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 32,248
Manchester 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10,702
McMinnville 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 13,786
Memphis 4 0 3 0 0 0 1 4 0 2 652,765
Milan 2 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 2 7,780
Millington 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 10,944
Morristown 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 29,774
Murfreesboro 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 136,102
Nashville Metropolitan 11 5 3 0 0 0 6 3 6 4 674,942
Ripley 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 8,067
Rogersville 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4,367
Smyrna 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 50,091
White Bluff 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3,483
Universities and Colleges 3 0 0 0 0 0
Chattanooga State Community College 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 8,628
Tennessee Technological University 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 10,493
University of the South 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1,815
Metropolitan Counties 10 5 0 0 0 0
Anderson 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Cheatham 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Hamilton 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Hickman 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Knox 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Montgomery 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Rutherford 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Shelby 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Sullivan 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Washington 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Nonmetropolitan Counties 6 3 0 0 0 0
Benton 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Claiborne 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Coffee 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Gibson 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Hardin 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
McMinn 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Monroe 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Rhea 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
State Police Agencies 8 1 0 0 0 0
Department of Safety 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 2
Other Agencies 0 0 0 1 0 0
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
  • 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 2016 school year, the most recent available. The enrollment figures include full-time and part-time students.

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