No surprises...Anti-Semitism in the US, 2005 FBI stats

[Behind the Aegis]

2005

In the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, the victim of a hate crime may be an individual, a business, an institution, or society as a whole. Nationwide in 2005, law enforcement agencies reported that there were 8,804 victims of hate crimes. Of these victims, nine were victimized in seven multiple-bias offenses.

By Bias Motivation
An analysis of data for victims of single-bias hate crime incidents showed that:

• 55.7 percent of the victims were targeted because of a bias against a race.
  
• 16.0 percent were victimized because of a bias against a religious belief.
  
• 14.0 percent were victimized because of a bias against an ethnicity/national origin.
  
• 13.8 percent were targeted because of a bias against a particular sexual orientation.
  
• 0.6 percent were targeted because of a bias against a disability.

Religious Bias
Of the 1,405 victims of an anti-religion hate crime:

• 69.5 percent were victims of an anti-Jewish bias.
  
• 10.7 percent were victims of an anti-Islamic bias.
  
• 7.5 percent were victims of a bias against other unspecified religions (anti-other religion).
  
• 4.3 percent were victims of an anti-Catholic bias.
  
• 4.1 percent were victims of an anti-Protestant bias.
  
• 3.3 percent were victims of a bias against groups of individuals of varying religions (anti-multiple religions, group).
  
• 0.4 percent were victims of an anti-Atheist/Agnostic bias.

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2004

Incidents and Offenses
In 2004, 2,046 agencies reported 7,649 incidents involving 9,035 offenses. There were 7,642 single-bias incidents and 7 multiple-bias incidents. (See Tables 1 and 12.) Among the single-bias incidents, racially motivated crimes accounted for 52.9 percent, religious bias accounted for 18.0 percent, bias against sexual orientation accounted for 15.7 percent, and bias against ethnicity or national origin accounted for 12.7 percent. Disability bias motivated 0.7 percent of single-bias incidents.

The 7,642 single-bias incidents reported to the UCR Program in 2004 involved 9,021 offenses; the 7 multiple-bias incidents involved 14 offenses. (Based on Table 1.)

By Bias Motivation
In 2004, racial bias motivated more than half (53.9 percent) of the 9,021 reported offenses within single-bias hate crime incidents; religious bias accounted for 16.4 percent; bias regarding sexual orientation, 15.6 percent; ethnicity or national origin, 13.3 percent; and disability bias, 0.8 percent.

Of the 1,480 reported offenses within single-bias incidents that were motivated by the offender’s religious bias, 67.8 percent were anti-Jewish, 13.0 percent were anti-Islamic, 3.9 percent were anti-Catholic, 2.9 percent were anti-Protestant, and 0.5 percent were anti-Atheism or Agnosticism. Bias against other (unspecified) religions accounted for 9.5 percent of the hate crime offenses motivated by religious bias, and bias against groups of individuals of varying religions (anti-multiple religions, group) accounted for 2.5 percent.

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976 (2005) vs. 1003 (2004) for a grand drop of 27 incidents! :eyes: