{"id":7855,"date":"2014-12-08T13:22:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T21:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=7855"},"modified":"2014-12-09T18:29:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T02:29:36","slug":"fbi-latest-hate-crime-report-hate-crimes-slightly-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=7855","title":{"rendered":"FBI Latest Hate Crime Report: Hate Crimes Down Slightly in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FBI<\/a>FBI \u00a0– \u00a0<\/strong>The FBI on Monday 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\u2019s Uniform Crime Reporting Program in 2013.<\/p>\n

These hate crime incidents impacted a total of 7,242 victims\u2014which are defined as individuals, businesses, institutions, or society as a whole.<\/p>\n

The number of reported hate crimes last year is down slightly when compared to 2012 UCR figures\u20145,928 in 2013 versus the 2012 figure of 6,573 (a combination of the 5,796 incidents in Hate Crime Statistics, 2012 and the 777 additional incidents published in Hate Crime Addendum, 2012).<\/p>\n

Hate Crime Statistics, 2013\u2014the first crime report publication to contain data collected under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act of 2009\u2014has a few changes from previous reports, the FBI report states.<\/p>\n

First, biases against gender (male or female) and gender identity (transgender and gender nonconformity) have been added to the list of bias categories. And in response to the Shepard\/Byrd Act, we modified our data collection so that reporting agencies can indicate whether crimes were committed by, or directed against, juveniles.<\/p>\n

Among the report\u2019s findings for 2013:<\/strong><\/p>\n