Section II: jurisdictional Hate Crime statistics, 2000

Uniform Crime Reports: Hate Crime Statistics, Annual, 2000

Of the 11,690 law enforcement agencies that provided 1 to 12 months of data to the FBI's Hate Crime Data Collection Program, 16.2 percent reported that at least one hate crime occurred in their jurisdiction during 2000. The remaining 83.8 percent of participating agencies reported that no instances of hate crime occurred.

The data presented in Section II provide a state and agency breakdown of bias-motivated offenses. Table 12 supplies individual state totals for the number of participating agencies, the populations represented, the number of agencies submitting incident reports, and the number of incidents reported. Table 13 includes those agencies that submitted one or more hate crime incidents, and Table 14 lists those agencies that submitted reports indicating no instances of hate crime occurred. Both Tables 13 and 14 present data by state, with each state subdivided by agencies within cities, universities and colleges, suburban counties, rural counties, state police agencies, and other agencies when applicable. In an effort to provide data users with more complete information, Tables 13 and 14 also provide the number of quarters each agency contributed data to the national hate crime program.

As stated earlier, many variables not considered in this publication can affect the volume and type of crime from place to place. For this reason and because these figures do not represent 12-month totals for every agency listed, data users are cautioned against making direct comparisons among agencies.