In an replace of its annual report issued on Monday, the FBI mentioned that 43.2 per cent of the entire crimes recorded had been associated to intimidation.
Washington,UPDATED: Mar 14, 2023 23:35 IST
19 rapes and 18 murders had been reported as hate crimes within the US in 2021. (Image: Twitter)
By Press Trust of India: 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 had 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 entire crimes recorded had been associated to intimidation.
“Nationally, reported hate crime incidents increased 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 stories 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 kind exhibits that 64.5 per cent of victims had been focused due to the offenders’ race/ethnicity/ancestry bias, 15.9 per cent had been focused due to offenders’ sexual-orientation bias and 14.1 per cent had been focused due to the offenders’ non secular bias, the report mentioned.
There had been 310 multiple-bias hate crime incidents that concerned 411 victims.
Of the 8,327 hate crime offences labeled as crimes towards individuals within the up to date 2021 dataset, 43.2 per cent had been intimidation, 35.5 per cent had been easy assault, and 20.1 per cent had been aggravated assault.
Nineteen rapes and 18 murders had been reported as hate crimes.
The remaining 70 hate crime offences labeled as crimes towards individuals had been reported within the class of different.  Of the three,817 hate crime offences labeled as crimes towards property, 71.2 per cent had been acts of destruction/injury/vandalism, it mentioned.  A complete of 267 further offences had been labeled as crimes towards society.
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Mar 14, 2023
