Anti-Semitism in the United States: Statistics on Religious Hate Crimes
The following data about anti-Jewish and religiously-biased hate crimes in the United States has been exceprted from the annual Report on Hate Crimes released by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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In 2017, law enforcement agencies across the United States participating in the Hate Crimes Statistics program reported 7,175 hate crime incidents involving 8,437 offenses. The number of incidents increased from 6,121 in 2016 in part because more police departments reported data to the FBI.
Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 21.8% of incidents during 2017, involving 1,009 offenders and 1,749 victims.
A breakdown of the offenses shows that 60% of religious hate crimes were anti-Jewish, 17% were anti-Islamic and 5% were anti-Catholic. Anti-Semitic hate crimes increased 37% while anti-Islamic crimes declined by 11%.
The following table tracks hate crimes by religious bias as reported by U.S. law enforcement agencies since 1996.
|
Year |
Incidents |
Victims |
|||
|
Anti-Jewish |
Anti-Islamic |
Total Religious |
Anti-Jewish |
Anti-Islamic |
|
| 2017 | 938 | 273 | 1,564 | 1,017 | 325 |
2016 |
684 | 307 | 1,273 | 862 | 388 |
|
2015 |
695 |
257 |
1,354 |
731 |
307 |
|
2014 |
609 |
154 |
1,014 |
648 |
184 |
|
2013 |
625 |
135 |
1,031 |
737 |
167 |
|
2012 |
674 |
130 |
1,099 |
836 |
155 |
|
2011 |
771 |
157 |
1,233 |
936 |
185 |
|
2010 |
887 |
160 |
1,322 |
1,040 |
197 |
|
2009 |
931 |
107 |
1,303 |
1,132 |
132 |
|
2008 |
1,013 |
105 |
1,519 |
1,145 |
130 |
|
2007 |
969 |
115 |
1,400 |
1,127 |
142 |
|
2006 |
967 |
156 |
1,462 |
1,144 |
208 |
|
2005 |
848 |
128 |
1,227 |
977 |
151 |
|
2004 |
954 |
156 |
1,374 |
1,076 |
201 |
|
2003 |
927 |
149 |
1,343 |
1,025 |
175 |
|
2002 |
931 |
155 |
1,426 |
1,084 |
174 |
|
2001 |
1,043 |
481 |
1,828 |
1,196 |
554 |
|
2000 |
1,109 |
28 |
1,472 |
1,269 |
36 |
|
1999 |
1,109 |
32 |
1,411 |
1,289 |
34 |
|
1998 |
1,081 |
21 |
1,390 |
1,235 |
23 |
|
1997 |
1,087 |
28 |
1,385 |
1,247 |
32 |
|
1996 |
1,109 |
27 |
1,401 |
1,209 |
33 |
* The term victim may refer to a person, business, institution, or society as a whole.
Full Hate Crime Reports
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation
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