In this report the information about the event is a crime report or source document that meets the criteria for a hate crime. There may be one or more suspects involved, one or more victims targeted, and one or more offenses involved for each event. For example, witnesses observe three suspects fleeing the scene of a crime. The place where the hate crime event occurred. The location categories follow UCR location specifications.
Examples are residence, hotel, bar, church, etc.
For 1995, the Department of Justice received reports detailing 1,754 hate crime events. Violent crimes accounted for 78.2 percent of known offenses. 35.0 percent of the hate crimes occurred at a residence or the home of the victim. The annual survey questionnaire used to collect these data, reports the total number of hate crime cases filed and the total number of hate crime convictions. There is no direct relationship, since a case may be filed in one period and the trial outcome may occur in another.