Ninety-two “Anti-Arab” incidents were reported, down from 105 in 2021. It is however important to note the FBI only began collecting data on anti-Arab hate crime in 2015. The FBI intended to publish anti-Arab hate crime data in the first edition of Hate Crimes Statistics, but before publication the anti-Arab reporting code was removed. As a result, anti-Arab hate crime was excluded and recoded in federal statistics for decades, even when many state law enforcement agencies continued to submit data on anti-Arab hate crimes during this period. In 2015, the anti-Arab code was added back to federal hate crime reporting allowing law enforcement personnel across the country to be better equipped to report, investigate, and respond to anti-Arab hate crime.
“Anti-Muslim” hate crime incidents increased slightly in 2022 with 158 incidents compared to 156 incidents in 2021. Still, levels remain below the high of 307 reached during the 2016 Presidential election cycle, the second highest number of incidents on record after the all-time high of 481 incidents in 2001 in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 .
As in previous years, “Anti-Black or African American” incidents (3,421) accounted for the most single-bias hate crimes based on race, ethnicity, or ancestry and a plurality of all hate crimes reported. This was the highest total number of Anti-Black incidents reported by the FBI’s hate crime statistics. 2022 also saw the highest number of “Anti-Hispanic or Latino” incidents (738) since the FBI began reporting statistics, a 5.7% jump from the previous year and a 42.7% jump from 2020 numbers.
2022 marks the second-highest number on record for “Anti-Asian” incidents (499). 2022 data are a 33.1% decrease from 2021, a year that saw an all-time high of 746 incidents which represented a shocking 167.3% increase of anti-Asian and Pacific Islander (AAPI) hate in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Overall, single-bias incidents based on religion…
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