US hate crimes statistics: All minorities face a common enemy in the form of supremacist ideologies
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The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics for 2024 shows 11,679 hate crime incidents in 2024, compared to 11,862 in 2023 – welcome news after fears of a sustained surge in hate crimes driven by the atrocities in Palestine and Israel.
The table below, extracted from the FBI Crime Data Explorer, shows the five-year trend of hate crimes against the four communities that I’ve been covering in my annual analysis published in Scroll since 2021.
As I have cautioned before, the absolute numbers in of themselves may suffer underreporting and other flaws, but the numbers are very helpful in studying trends and comparing the vulnerability of different communities.
| Anti-Black or African American | 3,819 | 3,307 | 3,218 | 1,392 | 2,784 |
| Anti-Jewish | 794 | 2,001 | 2,082 | 715 | 1.430 |
| Anti-Hispanic or Latino | 664 | 874 | 853 | 497 | 994 |
| Anti-Asian | 330 | 441 | 402 | 171 | 342 |
| Anti-Sikh | 93 | 163 | 143 | 105 | 210 |
| Anti-Islamic (Muslim) | 126 | 283 | 261 | 109 | 218 |
| Anti-Hindu | 11 | 32 | 26 | 13 | 26 |
| Anti-Buddhist | 16 | 24 | 28 | 24 | 48 |
| Total hate crimes | 8,263 | 11,862 | 11,679 | 11,000 | |
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