Race/ Ethnicity/ Ancestry
|
Religion
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Sexual orientation
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Disability
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Gender
|
Gender Identity
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Total
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% Population Covered
|
|
US
|
12.04
|
4.39
|
3.71
|
0.24
|
0.11
|
0.43
|
21.12
|
89.69
|
DC
|
48.45
|
26.43
|
61.66
|
2.94
|
0.00
|
29.36
|
168.83
|
100.00
|
MA
|
31.94
|
14.16
|
11.45
|
1.21
|
1.21
|
2.41
|
58.91
|
97.44
|
WA
|
32.8
|
8.4
|
9.6
|
0.3
|
0.4
|
1.9
|
53.14
|
99.92
|
The % of the population covered is lower for the US as a whole because in other parts of the country some law enforcement agencies do not participate in the FBI uniform crime report. The state of Hawaii does not participate at all.
For Massachusetts, Washington, and the US a a whole, racial/ethnic motivated attacks had the highest rate of incidence of any subcategory comprising more than half of the total incidents. These two states had higher rates than the US rate for every category. Some incidents can fall into more than one category.
DC had considerably higher rates of incidents in each category than the US as a whole except for gender motivated incidents. There were no such incidents reported there in 2016. Unlike the other two states profiled and the US, the largest incident rate there was ones that target those of a different sexual orientation. The graph below shows the rates for each category and entity on a logarithmic scale. This is done to show differences in the less common categories of gender and disability.
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