by Zach Dawes Jr | Mar 21, 2023 | Feature-, News
Religious bias incidents were the third most frequent type of hate crime committed in the U.S. in 2021, with anti-Jewish bias the most common religious bias incident, according to updated FBI data. Hate crimes are defined by the FBI as “crimes committed on the basis...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Sep 27, 2021 | News
Bias against a victim’s religious tradition was the third largest basis for hate crimes in the U.S. during 2020, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data released in late August. Religious bias was the basis for 13.4% of last year’s hate crime...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Nov 30, 2020 | News
More than 7,000 single-bias hate crime incidents involving more than 8,500 victims took place in 2019, with slightly more than one-fifth of these victims (20.1%) targeted due to religious bias on the part of the offenders, according to FBI data published Nov. 16. By...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 19, 2019 | News
Anti-Jewish bias continues to account for the majority of religious-bias hate crimes in the U.S., according to an EthicsDaily.com analysis of FBI data published Nov. 12. Since 1992, the FBI’s “Hate Crime Statistics” report has been released annually (typically in...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 9, 2019 | News
The number of reported human trafficking offenses increased in 2018, according to data released on Sept. 30 as part of the FBI’s annual “Crime in the U.S.” report. There were 1,392 reported offenses in 2018, up from 1,220 in 2017 and 1,196 in 2016, continuing a...