Hate Crime In US Elevated By 12 Per Cent In 2021: FBI Report

There have been 310 multiple-bias hate crime incidents that concerned 411 victims.

Washington:

Hate crimes within the US elevated by about 12 per cent in 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has mentioned, highlighting that 64.5 per cent of victims have been focused due to race or ancestry bias.

In an replace of its annual report issued on Monday, the FBI additionally mentioned that 43.2 per cent of the full crimes recorded have been associated to intimidation.

“Nationally, reported hate crime incidents elevated 11.6 per cent from 8,120 in 2020 to 9,065 in 2021,” the FBI mentioned, including that the up to date dataset for 2021 consists of all regulation enforcement company hate crime incident reporting.

The up to date hate crime dataset reviews contain 10,840 incidents and 12,411 associated offences.

Over 10,500 single-bias incidents concerned 12,411 victims, the report mentioned.

A per cent distribution of victims by bias sort reveals that 64.5 per cent of victims have been focused due to the offenders’ race/ethnicity/ancestry bias, 15.9 per cent have been focused due to offenders’ sexual-orientation bias and 14.1 per cent have been focused due to the offenders’ non secular bias, the report mentioned.

There have been 310 multiple-bias hate crime incidents that concerned 411 victims.

Of the 8,327 hate crime offences categorized as crimes towards individuals within the up to date 2021 dataset, 43.2 per cent have been intimidation, 35.5 per cent have been easy assault, and 20.1 per cent have been aggravated assault.

Nineteen rapes and 18 murders have been reported as hate crimes.

The remaining 70 hate crime offences categorized as crimes towards individuals have been reported within the class of different.~CHECK~ Of the three,817 hate crime offences categorized as crimes towards property, 71.2 per cent have been acts of destruction/harm/vandalism, it mentioned.~CHECK~ A complete of 267 extra offences have been categorized as crimes towards society.

This crime class represents society’s prohibition towards partaking in sure kinds of exercise equivalent to playing, prostitution, and drug violations. These are sometimes victimless crimes during which property shouldn’t be the item, the FBI mentioned in its report.

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