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The FBI reported a 63% increase in anti-Semitic attacks in the year 2023. There were 1,832 incidents up from 1,122 in 2022. This was revealed in comprehensive data on over 14 million criminal offenses reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program by participating law enforcement agencies in 2023 that the FBI published. More than 16,000 state, county, city, university and college, and tribal agencies, representing a combined population of 94.3% of the US inhabitants, submitted data to the UCR Program through the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and the Summary Reporting System.
“At a time when the Jewish community is still suffering from the sharp rise in antisemitism following Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, the record-high number of anti-Jewish hate crime incidents is unfortunately entirely consistent with the Jewish community’s experience and ADL’s (Anti-Defamation League) tracking,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO in response to the news. “Hate crimes are uniquely harmful, traumatizing both the individual and their community.”
ADL, which keeps its own count of both criminal and non-criminal acts of hate against Jews, counted a total of 8,873 antisemitic incidents in 2023, a 140-percent increase from the prior year, and the highest number on record since ADL began tracking such data in 1979. Assaults – considered the most serious incident type because it involves person-on-person physical violence – increased by 45 percent in 2023.
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Yet, the FBI’s crime statistics estimates, based on reported data for 2023, show that national violent crime decreased an estimated 3% in 2023 compared to 2022 estimates:
Murder and non-negligent manslaughter recorded a 2023 estimated nationwide decrease of 11.6% compared to the previous year.
In 2023, the estimated number of offenses in the revised rape category saw an estimated 9.4% decrease.
Aggravated assault figures decreased an estimated 2.8% in 2023.
Robbery showed an estimated decrease of 0.3% nationally.
In 2023, 16,009 agencies participated in the hate crime collection, representing a population coverage of 95.2%. Law enforcement agencies reported 11,862 criminal incidents and 13,829 related offenses motivated by bias against race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity.
To publish a national trend, the FBI’s UCR Program used a dataset of reported hate crime incidents and zero reports submitted by agencies reporting six or more common months or two or more common quarters (six months) of hate crime data to the FBI’s UCR Program for both 2022 and 2023. According to this dataset, reported hate crime incidents decreased 0.6% from 10,687 in 2022 to 10,627 in 2023.
