Hate crimes hit second largest record in 2024: FBI
The big picture: Although overall hate crimes decreased by 1.5% in 2024 from the year prior, advocates say the high numbers show Jewish Americans, Muslim Americans and LGBTQ+ residents are still targets for bias attacks.
By the numbers: Law enforcement agencies reported 11,679 criminal cases of hate crime last year, the FBI said Tuesday.
In 2023, the nation saw a record high of 11,862 hate crime cases, according to an Axios analysis of FBI data.
In addition, the FBI reported 13,683 related offenses as being motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity.
Zoom in: More than half of hate crimes involved attacks involving race or ethnicity, the FBI Crime Data Explorer database showed.
Black Americans were the most targeted group, followed by Jewish Americans, then gay men, according to the numbers.
Around 17% of all hate crimes involved sexual orientations.
Sikhs remain the third most-targeted religious group behind the Jewish and Muslim communities.
Caveat: Just over 16,000 agencies participated in the hate crime collection with the FBI, with a population coverage of 95.1% of the U.S. population.
That gap could mean more hate crimes in the U.S. are going unreported, advocates say.
What they're saying: "The record-high number of anti-Jewish hate crime incidents tracked by the FBI in 2024 is consistent with (Anti-Defamation League)'s reporting," ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said.
"We're facing a crisis of hate and extremism that threatens all of us and the core of our democracy," Jewish Council for Public Affairs CEO Amy Spitalnick said.
"Arab Americans, Asian Americans, Black Americans, Jewish Americans, the Latino community, the LGBTQ community, immigrants and others have long sounded the alarm — this violence is not new, it simply remains unaddressed," Arab American Institute executive director Maya Berry said.
Between the lines: Anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hate crimes appeared to have leveled off slightly last year, but the numbers are still alarming, analyst Brian Levin told Axios.
However, it appears that anti-Jewish hate crimes are still near or around record levels, he said.
Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish hate crimes tend to rise during conflicts in the Middle East, he said.
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