FBI Uniform Crime Reporting 2002
The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program's annual publication, Crime in the United States, 2002, compiles crime statistics from more than 17,000 city, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies.
Number of participating agencies in the UCR hate crimes reporting: 12,073
Population covered: 247,246,683
Here is a summary of the hate crime statistics for 2002:
· Of the 7,459 single-bias incidents in 2002, racial bias accounted for 48.8 percent, religious bias motivated 19.1 percent of incidents, sexual-orientation bias provoked 16.7 percent, and bias against an ethnicity or national origin caused 14.8 percent.
· During 2002, there were 9,222 victims associated with 8,832 hate crime offenses. A study of victim data for single-bias hate crimes showed that racial bias motivated the crimes against nearly half-49.7 percent-of all the victims. Offenders committed crimes against 18.0 percent of hate crime victims because of religious bias, 16.4 percent due to sexual-orientation bias, 15.3 percent because of ethnicity or national origin bias, and 0.5 percent due to disability bias.
· "A breakdown of the data for the 9,222 hate crime victims in 2002 showed that 64.6 percent (5,960) were victims of crimes against persons, 34.8 percent (3,213 victims) were targets of crimes against property, and 0.5 percent (49) were victims of crimes against society."
· "A review of the data by location showed that 29.5 percent of all reported hate crime incidents occurred at homes or residences."
· Twenty-three percent of college campuses with 2,500 enrolled students had a special hate crime program or unit operated by campus law enforcement agencies.
· From 1997 - 1999, sixty-one percent of hate crime incidents were motivated by race, 14 percent by religion, 13 percent by sexual orientation, 11 percent by ethnicity, and 1 percent by victim disability. The majority of incidents motivated by race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability involved a violent offense, while two-thirds of incidents motivated by religion involved a property offense, most commonly vandalism.
· From 1997 - 1999, younger offenders were responsible for most hate crimes. Thirty-one percent of violent offenders and 46 percent of property offenders were under age 18.
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