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Table 8

Incidents
Victim Type
by Bias Motivation, 2005

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Bias motivation	Total incidents	Victim type
Bias motivation	Total incidents	Individual	Business/ financial institution	Government	Religious organization	Society/ public¹	Other/ unknown/ multiple
Total	7,163	5,662	295	270	202	67	667
Single-Bias Incidents	7,160	5,661	295	269	202	67	666
Race	3,919	3,199	180	168	19	51	302
Religion	1,227	639	74	63	174	5	272
Sexual Orientation	1,017	935	16	19	5	4	38
Ethnicity/National Origin	944	839	22	19	4	6	54
Disability	53	49	3	0	0	1	0
Multiple-Bias Incidents²	3	1	0	1	0	0	1

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: 1) more than one offense type must occur in the incident and 2) at least two
offense types must be motivated by different biases.

Hate Crime Statistics 2005

U.S. Department of Justice — Federal Bureau of Investigation

Release Date: October 2006