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Table 8

Incidents

Victim Type

by Bias Motivation, 2019

Bias motivation Total
incidents 		Victim type
Individual Business/
financial
institution 		Government Religious
organization 		Society/
public1 		Other/
unknown/
multiple
Total 7,314 5,524 478 263 208 194 647
Single-Bias Incidents 7,103 5,410 466 240 194 191 602
Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry 3,963 3,269 218 120 12 136 208
Religion 1,521 701 182 103 170 29 336
Sexual Orientation 1,195 1,068 42 14 12 9 50
Disability 157 137 8 1 0 10 1
Gender 69 60 2 1 0 3 3
Gender Identity 198 175 14 1 0 4 4
Multiple-Bias Incidents2 211 114 12 23 14 3 45
  • 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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