One in 5 hate crimes involve religion, FBI says

[cbayer]

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/182889861.html

By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel Dec. 10, 2012

The number of hate crimes reported in 2011 fell by 6% from a year earlier, according to the FBI, which released its annual hate crime statistics on Monday.

According to the feds, 6,222 criminal incidents involving 7,254 offenses were reported in 2011 as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability.

According to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program in Hate Crime Statistics:

■ Nearly half of the crimes, or 47%, were motivated by a racial bias, 21% by sexual orientation bias, 20% by a religious bias, and 12% by an ethnicity/national origin bias. Bias against a disability accounted for fewer than 1% of incidents. The breakdown was roughly unchanged from 2010, but there was a slight uptick in incidents involving sexual-orientation bias, pushing it into second place behind racial bias in 2011.

■ 4,623 of the incidents were classified as crimes against people; 2,611 were crimes against property.

■ The crimes against people included four murders and seven rapes. Nearly half consisted of intimidation; 35% were classified as simple assault; 19% involved aggravated assault.

■ More than half of the known offenders, at 59%, were white; 21% were black. The race was unknown for about 11% of the offenders.

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[trotsky]

1. Not clear from the title is the fact that...

those crimes "involving" religion are far and away acts against Jews, Muslims, and other minority faiths done by Christians.