Hate crimes in the United States remained near all-time highs in 2024, with the FBI reporting 11,679 criminal incidents motivated by bias—a slight 1.5% decrease from the record 11,862 reported in 2023.
The FBI’s annual data, released Tuesday, also recorded 13,683 offenses related to race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, and other bias categories. Over half of all hate crimes involved race or ethnicity, with Black Americans the most targeted group, followed by Jewish Americans and gay men.
Hate crimes based on sexual orientation accounted for roughly 17% of cases. Sikhs ranked as the third-most targeted religious group behind Jewish and Muslim communities. Advocates noted that while anti-Muslim and anti-Arab incidents appear to have stabilized, anti-Jewish attacks remain at crisis levels—often surging during Middle East conflicts.
Only 16,000 law enforcement agencies participated in the reporting, covering 95.1% of the population, raising concerns among civil rights groups that actual incidents may be underreported.
“This violence is not new, it simply remains unaddressed,” said Maya Berry of the Arab American Institute. Advocacy groups are calling on Congress to pass the Improving Reporting to Prevent Hate Act (IRPHA) to strengthen data collection and response.
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