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Table 8

Incidents

Victim Type

by Bias Motivation, 2017

Bias motivation Total
incidents 		Victim type
Individual Business/
financial
institution 		Government Religious
organization 		Society/
public1 		Other/
unknown/
multiple
Total 7,175 5,373 515 282 168 220 617
Single-Bias Incidents 7,106 5,322 514 273 168 218 611
Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry 4,131 3,272 310 156 19 153 221
Religion 1,564 783 166 88 142 31 354
Sexual Orientation 1,130 1,034 20 20 6 16 34
Disability 116 89 7 2 0 16 2
Gender 46 40 3 1 0 2 0
Gender Identity 119 104 8 6 1 0 0
Multiple-Bias Incidents2 69 51 1 9 0 2 6
  • 1 The victim type society/public is collected only in the National Incident-Based Reporting System. See Methodology.
  • 2 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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