Hate crimes
Crimes where police record that the offender targeted the victim for race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or another trait.
Outline. The research for this insight is not written yet.
How many hate crimes do police record?
Incidents police recorded as motivated by bias, by the bias, the offense, and the agency that reported it.
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When the sources are loaded, this will show (answers at: state, national):
- Hate crime incidents by bias, offense, and state.
- Which agencies reported any hate crime data at all.
How many hate crimes go unreported?
Hate crime victimizations people describe in the National Crime Victimization Survey, whether or not they told police. A survey estimate, nationally only.
No data yet
When the sources are loaded, this will show (answers at: national):
- Hate crime victimizations, and the share reported to police.
What the records can't answer
- Count hate crimes that police did not record as bias-motivated. Many agencies report zero every year; zero means none reported, not none happened.
How it is recorded
Any offense can be a hate crime. Police record the bias motivation as a field on the offense, not as an offense of its own.
Where the records are
- FBI Hate Crime StatisticsNational
FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) · Hate crime · html, csv, xlsx · annual
Voluntary agency reporting; many agencies report zero hate crimes, so undercount is well documented.
- FBI Crime Data ExplorerNational
FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) · Incidents, Arrests, Hate crime, Use of force, Other · html, csv · annual
Official front door to UCR/NIBRS data for ~19k agencies; agency participation varies by year, especially post-2021 NIBRS transition.
Texas Department of Public Safety · Incidents, Arrests, Hate crime · pdf, xlsx · annual
Annual reports 2011-2025 with hate crime chapter and per-agency Crime by Jurisdiction Excel files; aggregate, no names.
Bureau of Justice Statistics · Victimization · pdf, html, csv · annual
Only national measure of crime including unreported crime; national estimates only (limited state/local detail).