Federal report finds 1-in-10 US hate crimes occur at schools

Roughly one in 10 hate crimes in the United States in 2022 occurred in schools from kindergarten through college, according to a new FBI report.

of reportA paper published Monday found that up to 10 percent of all hate crime crimes reported in 2022 occurred in schools, or 1,336 of the 13,346 total hate crime crimes reported that year. corresponds to

According to the FBI, over the five-year period from 2018 to 2022, schools were the third-most common place for hate crimes to occur, followed by residences, residences, and streets and alleys, which ranked first and second, respectively. 25.2 to 29.1 percent of all hate crime crimes reported over a five-year period are residential and residences, and 16.1 to 18.8 percent of hate crime crimes are highways/roads/alleys.

Broken down by school level, the FBI found that from 2018 to 2022, preschoolers through 12th graders experienced the most hate crime incidents, followed by higher education institutions, and universities/universities, including community colleges and technical schools. It was revealed that the incident occurred in the following environment.

Over the past five years, more than 30 percent of juvenile hate crime victims experienced an incident at school, and nearly 36 percent of juvenile hate crime offenders committed an incident at school, according to a report using crime data obtained by the FBI. It turned out that he had committed a crime.

The FBI defines a hate crime as “a criminal act motivated in whole or in part by the offender’s bias against race/ethnicity/ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, or gender identity.” Masu.

According to the report, Black students were the most targeted targets of hate crimes from 2018 to 2022, with 1,690 hate crime attacks reported within that demographic group, followed by Jewish students with 845 and LGBTQ students with 342. It has become.

According to an FBI study, reported hate crime incidents and related crimes overall increased from 2018 to 2022, jumping from approximately 8,492 incidents in 2018 to 13,345 incidents in 2022. 2020 was no different, with 12,895 crimes reported.

According to the report, the most frequent form of hate crime in schools was intimidation, followed by simple assault and aggravated assault.