The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) revised its Hate Crime Data Collection Guide and Training Manual to reflect recent changes to the law. The manual serves as a basis for training and awareness raising with law enforcement, and was developed with the assistance of civil society, local law enforcement and NGOs.
Official figures record 3298 racist offences and 822 offences with an ethnicity/national origin bias.
Official figures record 696 anti-Jewish offences.
Official figures record 149 anti-Islamic offences.
Official figures record 321 offences motivated by a religious bias, consisting of 79 anti-Catholic, 34 anti-Protestant, 107 "anti-other religion", 89 anti-multiple religions/group, and 12 "anti-atheism/agnosticism/etc."
Official figures record 1,318 offences motivated by bias against sexual orientation.
Official figures record 102 offences motivated by bias against disability.
The Anti-Defamation League reported 17 physical assaults including against a boy, a Holocaust survivor, an Orthodox Jew and a man returning from a synagogue; 440 incidents of vandalism and graffiti, including against homes, synagogues, Jewish schools, cemeteries and cars; an arson attack on a rabbi’s home; 469 cases of threats, including one bomb threat and a case where a pig’s head was placed above the door of a Jewish women’s college group (sorority).
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reported three arson attacks, including two against a building owned by the local Islamic society and one against a Muslim family’s home; an incident where pigs’ legs were left at a planned site for a mosque; three incidents of property damage, including two against mosques, one of which also involved an assault, one involving paintballs being shot at the walls of the mosque and one involving a bottle of acid being thrown at a Muslim school; one incident where shots were fired at a local Muslim education centre; and two cases of desecration to the same cemetery.
Transgender Europe (TGEU) reported the murder of a transgender woman and the shooting of two transgender women resulting in serious injury.
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Observatory reported two cases of vandalism against and graffiti on mosques, both involving windows being smashed; one case of threats to the director of an Islamic centre; one arson attack against a mosque; and one case of desecration of graves.
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Observatory reported one case of multiple murders of worshippers in a shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people – five men and one woman – and wounding several others.
ODIHR observes that the United States has not reported on the numbers of prosecuted cases or information on sentenced hate crime cases to ODIHR.