Section II--Jurisdictional Hate Crime Statistics, 2003.

In 2003, 11,909 agencies provided 1 to 12 months of hate crime data to the national Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. Of those agencies, 16.5 percent (1,967 agencies) reported a total of 7,489 incidents. The remaining 83.5 percent of agencies indicated that no instances of hate crimes occurred within their jurisdiction.

The data presented in this section provide aggregate state totals and individual agency breakdowns of bias-motivated incidents. Table 12 furnishes for each state the total number of participating agencies, the population represented, the number of agencies that submitted hate crime incidents, and the number of incidents reported. Data for individual agencies then appear in either Table 13 or Table 14: Table 13 provides data from those agencies that submitted one or more hate crime incidents in any of their reports, and Table 14 shows those agencies that submitted reports indicating that no instances of hate crimes occurred. In addition, Tables 13 and 14 present the data alphabetically by state with each state subdivided by agency type, i.e., cities, universities and colleges, metropolitan counties, nonmetropolitan counties, state police agencies, other agencies, and other agencies--tribal. The data published for universities and colleges represent reported crime from only those individual university/college law enforcement agencies that contributed to the UCR Program; the tables do not include educational institutions whose hate crime data were reported through the local law enforcement agency. Both tables also provide the number of quarters for which each agency contributed hate crime data to the UCR Program. (See Methodology.)