Table 8

Incidents
Victim Type
by Bias Motivation, 2006

Bias motivation	Total incidents	Victim type
Bias motivation	Total incidents	Individual	Business/ financial institution	Government	Religious organization	Society/ public¹	Other/ unknown/ multiple
Total	7,722	5,954	438	307	258	31	734
Single-Bias Incidents	7,720	5,954	438	307	258	31	732
Race	4,000	3,217	254	192	22	16	299
Religion	1,462	720	107	79	228	1	327
Sexual Orientation	1,195	1,085	35	16	3	1	55
Ethnicity/National Origin	984	869	37	19	5	7	47
Disability	79	63	5	1	0	6	4
Multiple-Bias Incidents²	2	0	0	0	0	0	2

¹ The victim type society/public is collected only in the NIBRS. See Methodology.
² In a multiple-bias incident, two conditions must be met: (a) more than one offense type must occur in the incident and (b) at least two offense types must be motivated by different biases.