Racial bias fueled the 44.9 percent of 9,730 reported hate crimes for 2001 that were committed mostly by whites, according to a FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) report which concluded these acts are on the rise.
According to that document, last year, both state and local law enforcement agencies reported to the FBI 9,730 incidents involving 11,451 separate offenses.
But, of the 9,730 incidents reported, 9,721 were single-bias incidents, or those that involved a singular bias motivation.
Of the 9,721 single-bias incidents, 44.9 percent were motivated by racial bias, according to the report, with 21.6 percent being driven by prejudice against an ethnicity or national origin.
The majority of known hate crime offenders (65.5 percent) were white, 20.4 percent were Black, 8.2 percent were of unknown race, and the remainder were of other races or were members of a group that consisted of offenders of varying races.
The majority of hate crime incidents (30.9 percent) occurred in or on residential properties. Highways, roads, alleys, or streets were the settings for 18.3 percent of the reported incidents, and 10.1 percent took place at schools and colleges. The remaining incidents were distributed among various locations.
Other incidents included: 18.8 percent which resulted from a bias against a particular religion, 14.3 percent involved a bias against sexual-orientation, and 0.4 percent which was motivated by a disability bias.
The document listed 11,451 hate crime offenses reported last year with 67.8 percent of the crimes being against persons, and 31.5 percent of the offenses as crimes against property. Federal officials concluded that intimidation continued to be the most frequently reported hate crime offense committed against individuals.
These acts accounted 55.9 percent of all crimes against persons. At 83.7 percent, the offense of destruction/damage/vandalism of property was the most frequently reported crime hate crime.
However, less than 1 percent (0.6 percent) of hate crimes were crimes against society.
During 2001, there were 12,020 total victims of hate crime. Of that total, 11,998 were victims of single-bias incidents. Of the 11,998 victims of single-bias incidents, 46.2 percent were victims of racial prejudice, 22.0 percent were victims of ethnicity or national origin bias, 17.7 percent were targets of religious intolerance, 13.9 percent were attacked because of sexual orientation and 0.3 percent were victims of a disability bias.
Of the 12,020 total victims of hate crimes, 22 were victims of multiple-biases.
According to the report, 10 of the hate crime victims were murdered in 2001. Five of these homicides were attributed to a bias against an ethnicity or national origin, four involved racial bias and one was driven by bias against a sexual orientation.
Law enforcement agencies reported 9,239 known offenders in connection with the 9,730 incidents reported in 2001.
Last year, 11,987 law enforcement agencies contributed hate crime data to the UCR Program, and approximately 17.6 percent of those agencies submitted reports to the FBI that at least one hate crime occurred in their jurisdictions.
FBI officials say these figures indicate a slight increase over the number of agencies submitting data in 2000.
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