Hate crimes have skyrocketed in the five years ending in 2022, with schools the third most common place for such crimes to be reported, according to a new FBI report.
According to the special report, up to 10% of all hate crimes in 2022 occurred between students on school campuses. According to the FBI’s research, the most common locations were homes, followed by highways and roads.
The number of reported hate crime incidents has increased each year over the previous year, starting with 7,181 in 2018 and ending with 11,643 in 2022.
“Over the past five years, more than 30 percent of juvenile hate crime victims experienced their crime at school, and nearly 36 percent of juvenile offenders committed their crime at school,” the report states.
Elementary schools (defined in the report as preschool through 12th grade) had more hate crimes than universities in every year.
The FBI report made no distinction between elementary school, middle school, and high school.
Anti-Black crimes were the most common type of hate reported in schools, with 1,690 such crimes between 2018 and 2022. This was followed by anti-Semitic crimes at 745 and anti-LGBTQ crimes at 342.
Crimes defined as “intimidation” were the most common at 1,623 over the five-year period, followed by criminal damage at 1,543 and simple assault at 826.
The FBI also found that hate crimes occurred most frequently in October. In this year, there were four hate crime crimes per day across the United States.
“This investigation of reported bias-motivated crimes goes beyond the basic number of hate crimes that occur in school settings and provides a deeper understanding of the striking similarities between these events. ,” the FBI said in the report.
“Analyzing the commonalities of hate crime crimes reported within schools may facilitate strategies to reduce or prevent these crimes in the future.”
