FBI: Hate Crime 2010 Data

FBI releases hate crime 2010 data

November 14, 2011 - During 2010, law enforcement agencies reported 6,628 criminal hate crime incidents involving 7,699 offenses across the United States, the FBI says in a Nov. 14 release of annual crime statistics.

Of the 6,624 incidents involving an incident with a single bias, 47.3 were racially motivated, 20 percent were motivated by religious hatred, 12.8 percent by ethnicity and 19.3 by sexual orientation.

Anti-Jewish and anti-Hispanic incidents were the most common incidents within religiously- and ethnically- motivated hate crimes, the FBI statistic show, constituting 67 percent and 63 percent of those categories, respectively.

Anti-Islamic religious hate crimes accounted for 12 percent of religiously-motivated hate crimes; there were 1,322 total such crimes reported during 2010, the FBI says. read more>>>