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Home • Hate Crime • 2017 • Tables • Table 13 State Cuts • Virginia

Table 13

VIRGINIA

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 109 42 35 7 0 0
Cities 41 10 9 1 0 0
Alexandria 1 2 2 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 158,256
Altavista 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3,470
Bedford 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6,622
Blacksburg 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 45,443
Charlottesville 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 47,446
Chesapeake 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 240,119
Christiansburg 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 22,272
Emporia 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5,201
Farmville 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 8,127
Front Royal 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 15,270
Hampton 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 134,929
Harrisonburg 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 53,717
Leesburg 4 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 54,393
Lynchburg 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 80,890
Manassas 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 41,995
Manassas Park 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 16,158
Marion 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5,837
Newport News 2 1 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 181,738
Norfolk 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 245,190
Petersburg 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 31,739
Portsmouth 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 95,100
Purcellville 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 9,779
Richmond 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 226,236
Suffolk 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 89,922
Vienna 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 16,590
Vinton 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 8,207
Virginia Beach 5 1 0 1 0 0 2 4 1 0 454,353
Universities and Colleges 6 4 1 0 0 0
George Mason University 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 34,909
Northern Virginia Community College 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 50,835
University of Mary Washington 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 4,726
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 33,170
Metropolitan Counties 56 27 20 1 0 0
Albemarle County Police Department 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Amelia 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
Arlington County Police Department 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0
Bedford 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Chesterfield County Police Department 6 1 2 0 0 0 2 3 3 1
Clarke 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Fairfax County Police Department 17 11 8 0 0 0 11 5 11 9
Fauquier 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1
Franklin 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Frederick 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Gloucester 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
Goochland 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Henrico County Police Department 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Loudoun 7 5 4 0 0 0 5 5 4 2
Prince George County Police Department 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Prince William County Police Department 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1
Rockingham 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Spotsylvania 2 3 2 0 0 0 2 3 2 0
Stafford 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 1
York 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Nonmetropolitan Counties 4 1 1 0 0 0
King and Queen 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Louisa 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Madison 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Page 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Westmoreland 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
State Police Agencies 2 0 4 5 0 0
State Police:
Amherst County 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 1
Frederick County 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Halifax County 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
Harrisonburg 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Henrico County 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Rockbridge County 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Washington County 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Westmoreland County 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Winchester 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 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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