The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported description of incidents as well as statistical data.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) issued its final report on "Combating Religious Discrimination Today" in March 2016. The report emerged from an inter-agency community engagement initiative to promote religious freedom, challenge religious discrimination and enhance enforcement of religion-based hate crimes. Several challenges were identified in efforts to overcome religion-based hate crimes, including: a lack of clear, consistent, and accessible data to track hate crime reporting and prosecutions; an uptick in attacks on Muslims and those perceived to be Muslims since the September 11 terror attack; under-reporting of religion-based hate crimes, and; hate crimes targeting places of worship.
The report recommended: making improvements to the online presentation of available hate crime data; the strengthening of hate crime data collection by law enforcement; enhancing awareness of federal resources for the protection of places of worship; increased communication by the DOJ about hate crime prosecutions and judicial outcomes; strengthening hate crime training efforts; strengthening religious communities' relationships with law enforcement, and; facilitating inter-faith dialogue and communication.
Consequently, in July, the DOJ updated its website to ensure that communities know about its work to combat hate violence and enforce federal hate crime laws.
This category includes hate crimes committed on the grounds of race, ethnicity and ancestry.
Anti-Semitic hate crime was originally reported under the category of anti-religious hate crimes.
Anti-Muslim hate crime was originally reported under the category of anti-religious hate crimes.
Anti-Christian hate crime was originally reported under the category of anti-religious hate crimes and includes hate crime against Catholics, Protestants, Jehovah's Witnesses, Eastern Orthodox and Other Christians.
Anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and anti-Muslim hate crimes were originally also reported under this category and are presented separately.
Official figures recorded 36 gender-based hate crimes, of which 26 were anti-female and 10 anti-male.
Official figures recorded 1,218 hate crimes based on sexual orientation, including 23 anti-heterosexual, and 130 hate crimes based on gender identity.
ODIHR observes that the United States has not reported information on prosecuted and sentenced hate crime cases to ODIHR.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported descriptions of incidents as well as statistical data. This explains the discrepancy between the graphic above and the incidents included below.