The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a supplemental report that focuses specifically on bias-motivated incidents, or “hate crimes” throughout the nation.

The report explains the Bureau’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program accepted Summary Reporting System (SRS) hate crime data submissions and additional National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) hate crime reports from 3,025 agencies that covered a combined population of 87,239,467 to help compile this report. This supplement allows for a more complete representation of reported hate crimes in the US for 2021. According to this report, nationally, reported hate crime incidents increased 11.6 percent from 8,120 in 2020 to 9,065 in 2021.

The report adds that the supplemental hate crime dataset reports of incidents motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity involves 10,840 incidents and 12,411 related offenses. The supplemental reporting figure is higher as more agencies were able to submit via the combined system. The report adds that, due to rounding, percentage breakdowns may not add up to 100 percent.

The percentage breakdown shows: 64.5 percent of victims were targeted because of the offenders’ race/ethnicity/ancestry bias; 15.9 percent were targeted because of the offenders’ sexual-orientation bias; 3.2 percent were targeted because of the offenders’ gender identity bias; 1.4 percent were targeted because of the offenders’ disability bias; and 1.0 percent were targeted because of the offenders’ gender bias.

There were 310 multiple- bias hate crime incidents that involved 411 victims.

Of the 8,327 hate crime offenses classified as crimes against persons in the updated 2021 dataset: 43.2 percent were intimidation; 35.5 percent were simple assault; and 20.1 percent were aggravated assault. 19 rapes and 18 murders were reported as hate crimes.

The remaining 70 hate crime offenses classified as crime against persons were reported in the category of other. Of the 3,817 hate crime offenses classified as crimes against property, 71.2 percent were acts of destruction/damage/vandalism.

Two hundred sixty seven additional offenses were classified as crimes against society. This crime category represents society’s prohibition against engaging in certain types of activity such as gambling, prostitution, and drug violations. These are typically victimless crimes in which property is not the object.