WASHINGTON — The number of hate crime incidents in 2002 declined dramatically from 2001, the FBI reported Nov. 13.
State and law enforcement agencies reported 7,462 hate crime incidents, 23 percent fewer than the 9,730 incidents reported in 2001.
The FBI’s review of 7,459 single-bias hate crime incidents found that 48.8 percent were racially motivated, 19.1 percent were motivated by bias against a religious group, 16.7 percent were based on a bias against sexual orientation, 14.8 percent were based on ethnicity/national origin bias and 0.6 percent were motivated by a disability bias.
Eleven of the 2002 hate crime victims were murdered. Four of those murders were related to racial bias, four were linked to a sexual-orientation bias, two were tied to an ethnicity/national origin bias and one was linked with a religious bias.
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