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Home • Hate Crime • 2018 • Tables • Table 13 State Cuts • Kentucky

Kentucky

KENTUCKY

Hate Crime Incidents

per Bias Motivation and Quarter

by Agency, 2018

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 189 16 22 3 8 2
Cities 132 9 21 3 5 2
Ashland 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 20,525
Berea 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15,893
Bowling Green 8 2 0 0 2 0 6 3 1 2 68,268
Cadiz 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2,637
Calvert City 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2,513
Campbellsville 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 11,503
Columbia 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4,927
Corbin 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5,517
Covington 4 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 3 2 40,448
Cynthiana 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 6,362
Danville 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 16,801
Dawson Springs 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2,665
Elizabethtown 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 30,180
Erlanger 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 22,993
Falmouth 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2,100
Florence 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 32,701
Fort Mitchell 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 8,260
Fort Thomas 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16,274
Frankfort 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 27,664
Fulton 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2,175
Georgetown 7 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 0 34,351
Glasgow 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 14,411
Henderson 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 28,618
Highland Heights 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 7,112
Hopkinsville 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 30,606
Independence 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 28,052
Jeffersontown 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 27,443
La Grange2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 8,995
Lancaster 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3,866
Lawrenceburg 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 11,378
Lebanon 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5,668
Lexington2 23 3 7 1 1 0 5 7 6 15 325,579
London 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 8,008
Louisville Metro 9 0 2 1 0 1 5 1 1 6 682,005
Mount Washington 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14,704
Murray 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 19,402
Newport 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 14,972
Nicholasville2 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 30,922
Oak Grove 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 7,232
Owensboro 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 59,686
Owingsville 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1,575
Paducah 4 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 24,933
Paris2 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 9,809
Radcliff 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 22,576
Richmond 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 35,952
Russell Springs 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2,588
Russellville 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 7,088
Shelbyville 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 16,138
St. Matthews 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 18,228
Taylorsville 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1,262
Tompkinsville 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2,267
Uniontown 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 943
Versailles 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 26,552
Vine Grove 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6,237
Williamsburg 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5,299
Wilmore 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 6,406
Winchester 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 18,505
Universities and Colleges 3 0 0 0 1 0
Morehead State University 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 12,390
University of Kentucky 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 31,564
University of Louisville 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 25,091
Metropolitan Counties 18 4 0 0 0 0
Boone 6 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 4
Bourbon 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Boyd 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1
Campbell County Police Department 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Gallatin 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Jessamine 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Oldham County Police Department 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Scott 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Shelby 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Warren 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
Nonmetropolitan Counties 10 2 1 0 2 0
Boyle 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Clay 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Franklin 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Garrard County Police Department 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Hart 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Laurel 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Lee 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
McCracken 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 2 0
Montgomery 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Pulaski 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Whitley 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
State Police Agencies 19 1 0 0 0 0
State Police:
Ashland 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Bowling Green 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Campbellsburg 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0
Cannabis Suppression Section 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Dry Ridge 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Elizabethtown 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1
Frankfort 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Hazard 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
Madisonville 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Morehead 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
West Drug Enforcement Branch 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Other Agencies 7 0 0 0 0 0
Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Fayette County Schools 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Greater Hardin County Narcotics Task Force 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Jefferson County School District 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
South Central Kentucky Drug Task Force 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 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 2017 school year, the most recent available. The enrollment figures include full-time and part-time students.
  • 2 The figures shown include one incident reported with more than one bias motivation.