USA witnesses increase in Hate crime attacks in 2016 :FBI

Washington, Nov 14: The United States of America USA has seen an increase in the hate crime in 2016 compared to 2015 according to the data released by FBI.

The new data released by the US Investigative agency Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has indicated that there was an increase of hate crimes by 4.6 % from 2015.The total number of hate crimes in 2016 was 6,121, compared with 5,850 in 2015.

The report said, most crimes were motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, or gender identity.

According to the data, the number of hate crimes increased for a second consecutive year, and most were single-bias incidents.

The FBI report further added that "Hate crime victims can be individuals, businesses, government entities, religious organizations, or society as a whole, and they can be committed against persons, property, or society."

The report has also claimed that of those single-bias offenses in 2016, nearly 58 percent were motivated by race, ethnicity or ancestry bias, while 21 percent were driven by religious bias and about 18 percent were caused due to bias towards sexual orientation.

The FBI report was based on voluntary reporting by over 15,000 local law enforcement agencies.