Hate Crime Statistics Report

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Heterosexuals and Homosexuality both experiences the same encounters in life. They have to tolerate different studies and research that try to discover out why and how to some degree things are the way it is. These two different groups of people are human beings and they are the same, the heterosexual endure prejudices, discrimination, racial bias, religious bias motivated; sexual orientation bias, ethnicity/national origin bias, disability bias just like the homosexual. Both are these two groups of people are experiences trials and tribulation that involves living in this universe. On April 23, 1990 congress passed on act called the Hate Crime Statistics Act, this act requires the Attorney General to collect data about crimes that manifest …show more content…
The FBI released its annual Hate Crime Statistics report, which revealed that 5,928 hate crime incidents involving 6,933 offenses were reported by our law enforcement partners to the Bureau’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program in 2013. These hate crime incidents impacted a total of 7,242 victims, which are defined as individuals, businesses, institutions, or society as a whole. Among the report’s findings for 2013, 5,928 incidents reported, six were multiple-bias hate crime incidents involving 12 victims. Of the 5,922 single bias incidents reported, the top three bias categories were race (48.5 percent), sexual orientation (20.8 percent), and religion (17.4 percent). Of the reported 3,407 single-bias hate crime offenses that were racially motivated, 66.4 were motivated by anti-black or African-American bias, and 21.4 percent stemmed from anti-white bias. 60.6 percent of the reported 1,402 hate crime offenses based on sexual orientation were classified as anti-gay (male) bias. Law enforcement agencies identified 5,814 known offenders in the 5,928 bias-motivated incidents. Of these offenders, 52.4 percent were white and 24.3 percent were black or African-American. Of the 6,933 hate crime offenses reported in 2013, 63.9 percent were crimes against persons (e.g., intimidation, assaults, rapes, murders), while 35 percent were property crimes (mostly acts of destruction/damage/vandalism). The