This week, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program launched 2021 hate crime statistics about bias-motivated incidents all through the nation. The 2021 knowledge, submitted by 11,834 regulation enforcement businesses, present details about the offenses, victims, offenders, and areas of hate crimes. That is the primary 12 months the annual hate crimes statistics are reported completely by means of the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). In comparison with the earlier crime knowledge assortment system, NIBRS collects considerably extra detailed knowledge for every particular person prison incident.
Regulation enforcement businesses submitted incident stories involving 7,262 prison incidents and eight,673 associated offenses as being motivated by bias towards race, ethnicity, ancestry, faith, sexual orientation, incapacity, gender, and gender id.
Particularly in Missouri final 12 months, the variety of hate crime incidents reported to regulation enforcement jumped by nearly 70%. The commonest bias was focused in opposition to an individual’s race, ethnicity, or ancestry. “This spike is alarming no matter whether or not there have been extra incidents or as a result of extra victims had been keen to report it,” mentioned Particular Agent in Cost Jay Greenberg of the FBI St. Louis Division. “Simply previous to my appointment to go FBI St. Louis, I led the cost at FBI Headquarters to raise hate crimes investigations as one of many high priorities throughout the Bureau. We encourage victims to not solely report back to their native regulation enforcement, however on to the FBI as effectively.” The statistics are based mostly on knowledge acquired from greater than 81% of regulation enforcement businesses all through Missouri.
Hate Crime Incidents Reported in Missouri
- Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry
- Sexual Orientation
- Faith
- Gender Id
- A number of Bias
- Incapacity
- Gender
- Complete
Highlights nationwide of Hate Crime Statistics, 2021, observe. (Resulting from rounding, proportion breakdowns might not add to 100.0 p.c.)
Victims of Hate Crime Incidents
- Barely greater than 7,000 (7,074) single-bias incidents concerned 8,753 victims. A p.c distribution of victims by bias kind exhibits that 64.8 p.c of victims had been focused due to the offenders’ race/ethnicity/ancestry bias, 15.6 p.c had been focused due to the offenders’ sexual-orientation bias, 13.3 p.c had been focused due to the offenders’ spiritual bias, 3.6 p.c had been focused due to the offenders’ gender id bias, 1.7 p.c had been focused due to the offenders’ incapacity bias, and 1.0 p.c had been focused due to the offenders’ gender bias.
- There have been 188 multiple-bias hate crime incidents that concerned 271 victims.
Offenses by Crime Class
- Of the 5,781 hate crime offenses categorised as crimes in opposition to individuals in 2021, 44.2 p.c had been intimidation, 35.9 p.c had been easy assault, and 18.3 p.c had been aggravated assault. 13 (13) rapes and 9 murders had been reported as hate crimes. The remaining 69 hate crime offenses categorised as crimes in opposition to individuals had been reported within the class of different.
- Of the two,606 hate crime offenses categorised as crimes in opposition to property, most (64.2 p.c) had been acts of destruction/injury/vandalism.
- 2 hundred eighty-six (286) extra offenses had been categorised as crimes in opposition to society. This crime class represents society’s prohibition in opposition to partaking in sure sorts of exercise comparable to playing, prostitution, and drug violations. These are usually victimless crimes wherein property is just not the item.
Identified Offenders
- Within the UCR Program, the time period identified offender signifies that some facet of the suspect was recognized, thus distinguishing the suspect from an unknown offender. It doesn’t essentially suggest that the suspect’s id is thought.
- Of the 6,312 identified offenders, 56.1 p.c had been White, 21.3 p.c had been Black or African American, 1.3 p.c had been American Indian or Alaska Native, 1.0 p.c had been Asian, 0.4 p.c had been Native Hawaiian or Different Pacific Islander, and 6.3 p.c had been a number of races. The race was unknown for 13.5 p.c.
- Of the 4,884 identified offenders for whom ethnicity was reported, 55.4 p.c had been Not Hispanic or Latino, 7.6 p.c had been Hispanic or Latino, and eight.9 p.c had been in a bunch of a number of ethnicities. Ethnicity was unknown for 28.1 p.c of those offenders.
- Of the 5,757 identified offenders for whom ages had been identified, 82.3 p.c had been 18 years of age or older.
Places of Hate Crimes
Regulation enforcement businesses might specify the situation of an offense inside a hate crime incident as 1 of 46 location designations. In 2021, most hate crime incidents (32.2 p.c) occurred in or close to residences/properties. Almost 17 p.c (16.9) occurred on highways/roads/alleys/streets/sidewalks, 8.1 p.c occurred at faculties/faculties, 7.0 p.c occurred at parking/drop heaps/garages, 2.8 p.c befell in eating places, and a couple of.7 p.c occurred at parks/playgrounds. The placement was reported as different/unknown for 4.2 p.c of hate crime incidents. The remaining 26.1 p.c of hate crime incidents befell within the remaining specified location classes or in a number of areas.
Transition to NIBRS
Since 2016, the Justice Division has labored diligently with regulation enforcement businesses to help of their transition to reporting crime knowledge by means of NIBRS, together with allocating over $120 million in grants to help businesses’ transition. NIBRS is a big shift and enchancment in how reported crime is measured and estimated by the federal authorities and can significantly enhance the nation’s understanding of crime and public security.
On account of the shift to NIBRS-only knowledge assortment, regulation enforcement company participation in submitting all crime statistics, together with hate crimes, fell considerably from 2020 to 2021. Regulation enforcement businesses that didn’t transition to reporting crime knowledge by means of NIBRS weren’t capable of submit hate crime statistics to the FBI’s UCR Program. A number of of the nation’s largest regulation enforcement businesses, in addition to some states, didn’t make the transition to NIBRS in time to submit knowledge previous to the reporting deadline, and are usually not included within the 2021 reported totals.
Participation in NIBRS continues to enhance. As of November 1, 2022, 12,090 of the nation’s 18,806 regulation enforcement businesses have reported crime knowledge utilizing NIBRS. As extra businesses transition to the NIBRS knowledge assortment with continued help from the Division of Justice, hate crime statistics in coming years will present a richer and extra full image of hate crimes nationwide.
Hate Crime Statistics, 2021, is offered on the FBI’s Crime Information Explorer at https://crime-data-explorer.app.cloud.gov.
