Table 1

Incidents, Offenses, Victims, and Known Offenders
by Bias Motivation, 2007
Bias motivation Incidents Offenses Victims1 Known offenders2
Total 7,624 9,006 9,535 6,965
Single-Bias Incidents 7,621 8,999 9,527 6,962
Race: 3,870 4,724 4,956 3,707
Anti-White 749 871 908 828
Anti-Black 2,658 3,275 3,434 2,509
Anti-American Indian/Alaskan Native 61 75 76 63
Anti-Asian/Pacific Islander 188 219 234 165
Anti-Multiple Races, Group 214 284 304 142
Religion: 1,400 1,477 1,628 576
Anti-Jewish 969 1,010 1,127 320
Anti-Catholic 61 65 70 31
Anti-Protestant 57 59 67 22
Anti-Islamic 115 133 142 104
Anti-Other Religion 130 140 148 62
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group 62 64 66 32
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc. 6 6 8 5
Sexual Orientation: 1,265 1,460 1,512 1,454
Anti-Male Homosexual 772 864 890 923
Anti-Female Homosexual 145 184 197 147
Anti-Homosexual 304 362 375 349
Anti-Heterosexual 22 27 27 19
Anti-Bisexual 22 23 23 16
Ethnicity/National Origin: 1,007 1,256 1,347 1,155
Anti-Hispanic 595 775 830 758
Anti-Other Ethnicity/National Origin 412 481 517 397
Disability: 79 82 84 70
Anti-Physical 20 20 20 27
Anti-Mental 59 62 64 43
Multiple-Bias Incidents3 3 7 8 3

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