The 7,489 total incidents last year were just 27 more than took place in 2002, the FBI said - and the 2002 figures were the lowest since 1994. As a motivating factor for hate crimes, religion was a distant second - along with sexual orientation - behind race. While 16.4 percent of these crimes were motivated by religious animus, more than 52 percent were the result of racial prejudice, most often anti-black...
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A total of 11,909 U.S. law enforcement agencies contributed data to the 2003 survey, a drop from the 12,073 participating agencies the previous year. More than 5,000 U.S. police departments did not participate at all, including those in some large cities. Because so many law enforcement agencies do not take part, Foxman said, "there's this gnawing feeling that we're not getting the whole picture...
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HAte Crimes African Americans, Jews, Arab Americans and Muslims, new immigrants, lesbians, gay men, and women are some of the most frequently targeted groups. Prejudice is at the heart of all hate crimes...	2 / 490
hate crimes A good example of this would be In 1997 SS lightning bolts and swastikas were among the anti-Semitic graffiti discovered in Hebrew and Yiddish books in the University of Chicago library, and an explosive device was detonated at the door of a Jewish center in New York City...	3 / 659
Hate Crime Laws The victoms are demanding newer stricter laws. The victoms or minorities want these newer stricter laws because basically they have no protection from violence...	3 / 642
Gay Rights According to 2001 FBI statistics, hate crimes based on sexual orientation constituted the third highest category reported and made up 13.9 percent of all reported hate crimes...	2 / 524