FBI: Number of anti-Black hate crimes increased by 14% in 2021

The FBI registered 10,840 cases of hate crimes in 2021, up from 8,052 in 2020, according to a supplement to the agency’s annual report on hate crimes. The number of anti-Black hate crimes increased by 14 percent. Black Americans were the most frequently targeted based on their race or ethnicity, with approximately one victim of anti-Black hatred reported for every 12,000 Black people nationwide.

In 2021, the FBI registered 3,277 cases of anti-Black hate crimes, with 3,906 victims. White victims of hate crimes were numerically the second largest group of racially targeted victims, after Black Americans, but proportionately they were significantly less likely to be victims of hate crimes than any other large group examined in the research.

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