From the FBI's web site: Although the Hate Crimes Statistics Act of 1990 (amended in 1994 and 1996) defines a hate crime as a crime against a person or property motivated by bias toward race, religion, ethnicity/national origin, disability, or sexual orientation, the FBI does not have any federal jurisdiction to investigate hate crimes motivated by a sexual orientation bias. Some stats inside....... -- Welcome To The Crzy House

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Date Posted: 22:29:01 06/20/03 Fri
Author: E.J.
Subject: From the FBI's web site: Although the Hate Crimes Statistics Act of 1990 (amended in 1994 and 1996) defines a hate crime as a crime against a person or property motivated by bias toward race, religion, ethnicity/national origin, disability, or sexual orientation, the FBI does not have any federal jurisdiction to investigate hate crimes motivated by a sexual orientation bias. Some stats inside.......
In reply to: E.J. 's message, "Just a question...On the Department of Justice web site, they show a definition of hate crimes which includes sexual orientation. Is this just a misprint or what?" on 19:42:17 06/20/03 Fri

The most recent available hate crimes statistics compiled by the FBI are for the year 1999. During 1999, 7,876 hate crime incidents were reported to the FBI by 12,122 law enforcement agencies in 48 states and the District of Columbia. The 1999 statistics reflected the following:

Number of incidents by Bias Motivation:

4,295 were motivated by racial bias
1,411 were motivated by religious bias
1,317 were motivated by sexual orientation bias
829 were motivated by ethnicity/national origin bias
19 were motivated by disability bias
5 were motivated by multiple biases

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