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

Tennessee

TENNESSEE

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 100 26 29 13 2 4 0
Cities 60 15 21 8 0 4
Alcoa 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 10,506
Algood 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 4,517
Bartlett2 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 59,407
Brighton 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2,910
Chattanooga 4 3 1 1 0 1 0 1 5 4 180,397
Clarksville 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 156,264
Cleveland 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 44,954
Clifton 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2,676
Clinton 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10,137
Covington 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 8,794
Crossville 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11,535
Dandridge 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2,981
Dover 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1,461
Dyersburg 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 16,382
Elizabethton 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 13,657
Franklin 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 80,825
Germantown 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 39,179
Greenbrier 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 6,899
Greeneville 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 14,867
Hendersonville 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 58,437
Jackson 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 66,848
Kingsport 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 50,565
Knoxville 4 2 3 1 0 0 5 3 1 1 188,653
Lebanon 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 33,181
Maryville 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 28,961
McMinnville 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 13,668
Memphis 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 652,226
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department 3 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 1 1 686,492
Millington 3 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 1 11,016
Morristown 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 29,859
Mount Juliet 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 36,397
Munford 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6,090
Murfreesboro 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 140,702
Oak Ridge 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 26,053
Pigeon Forge 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6,291
Ripley 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 7,977
Sevierville 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 16,999
Shelbyville 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 21,708
Springfield 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 16,896
Spring Hill 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 31,100
Trenton 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4,043
Whitwell 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1,706
Universities and Colleges 2 0 1 0 0 0
Tennessee State University 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9,820
Vanderbilt University 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 13,397
Metropolitan Counties 23 7 4 4 1 0
Blount 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Bradley 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0
Carter 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Gibson 6 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 2
Hamilton 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
Jefferson 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Maury 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Montgomery2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0
Robertson 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Rutherford 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Shelby 5 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 3
Sullivan 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 2
Washington 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Williamson 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Nonmetropolitan Counties 4 2 2 1 0 0
Benton 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Hardeman 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Hickman 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
McMinn 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Meigs 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
Monroe 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Sevier 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
State Police Agencies 10 2 1 0 1 0
Department of Safety2 10 2 1 0 1 0 6 4 1 1
Other Agencies 1 0 0 0 0 0
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 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 2017 school year, the most recent available. The enrollment figures include full-time and part-time students.
  • 2 The figure shown include one incident reported with more than one bias motivation.