Information from the Arizona Division of
Public Security and the FBI present that hate crimes in Arizona have gone
down barely since 2021, although Black individuals nonetheless usually tend to
face a hate crime than every other group.
The Arizona Mirror analyzed knowledge collected by the Arizona Division of Public security and the FBI, which has proven that hate crimes are on the rise nationally whereas violent crime is on the decline.
Nonetheless, the FBI knowledge is way from a whole image.
Of the 123 regulation enforcement businesses in Arizona, solely 83
offered knowledge in 2022 to the FBI’s Nationwide Incident Based mostly Reporting
System, or NIBRS — and the Phoenix Police Division, the most important regulation
enforcement company within the state, didn’t report any knowledge. Roughly 23% of
Arizonans fall below the jurisdiction of the Phoenix Police
Division.
Some police businesses didn’t ship
stories on hate crimes for a number of quarters in 2022, together with the
Tucson Police Division and Maricopa County Sheriff’s Workplace.
The businesses that participated in 2022 could be discovered right here.
The FBI’s first report on hate crimes
was issued in 2022, primarily based on 2021 knowledge. That report discovered that reported
hate crime incidents elevated 11.6% nationally from 2020, even after
the FBI acknowledged that by gathering hate crime knowledge solely by
NIBRS meant participation “fell considerably” from 2020 to 2021.
The Arizona knowledge
Arizona has seen a lower in
reported hate crimes since a latest peak in 2020, when there have been a
reported 284 hate crimes, based on the FBI knowledge. The subsequent highest
years are 2000, 2001, 1997 and 1998 which noticed 281, 386, 330 and 283 hate
crimes reported, respectively. The overwhelming majority of incidents additionally
contain assault.
Of those that are victims of hate
crimes, the FBI knowledge exhibits that Black Arizonans proceed to face the
highest quantity. A reported 94 anti-Black hate crimes occurred within the
state in 2021 and 62 in 2022. The DPS knowledge exhibits that hate crimes
motivated by race and ethnicity make up the most important variety of
incidents.
The FBI knowledge additionally exhibits that
anti-Hispanic or Latino hate crimes are on the rise, with a 55% enhance
in hate crimes focusing on these communities from 2021 to 2022.
Hate crimes in opposition to the LGBTQ
group noticed a small rise in 2022, with 42 incidents. That features a
doubling in hate crimes focusing on the transgender group.
Incidents of antisemitism climbed in 2021, based on the Anti-Defamation League,
which famous final 12 months that Jewish individuals comprise 60% of American hate
crime victims, however solely 2% of the nation’s inhabitants. In Arizona,
Jewish individuals make up roughly 1.5% of the inhabitants. In 2022, the
state noticed roughly the identical variety of anti-Jewish incidents
reported to the FBI because the state noticed in 2021, making up about 5% of all
hate crimes.
Nonetheless, anti-Black incidents nonetheless
make up the most important class of incidents in Arizona and nationally.
Black Arizonans account for five% of the state’s inhabitants however had been
victims in 30% of all hate crimes reported in 2022.
The offenders are largely white;
virtually two in each three hate crime offenders in Arizona had been white in
2022. The subsequent largest group is Black Arizonans, who made up 18% of all
hate crime offenders.
Police departments throughout the nation have been declining to report hate crime knowledge which specialists say makes it more durable to completely grasp hate crimes and the affect of them.
This 12 months there have already been 150 reported hate crimes, based on DPS knowledge.