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Table 8

Incidents

Victim Type

by Bias Motivation, 2018

Bias motivation Total
incidents 		Victim type
Individual Business/
financial
institution 		Government Religious
organization 		Society/
public1 		Other/
unknown/
multiple
Total 7,120 5,581 381 214 153 257 534
Single-Bias Incidents 7,036 5,532 371 204 151 257 521
Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry 4,047 3,334 189 97 14 195 218
Religion 1,419 784 128 91 127 37 252
Sexual Orientation 1,196 1,091 36 14 10 5 40
Disability 159 131 11 1 0 15 1
Gender 47 43 0 1 0 1 2
Gender Identity 168 149 7 0 0 4 8
Multiple-Bias Incidents2 84 49 10 10 2 0 13
  • 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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