The FBI releases annual crime reports. The 2022 report estimated that violent crime decreased by 1.7% compared to 2021. Murder and non-negligent manslaughter decreased by 6.1%.
Here are some highlights from the 2022 report:
- Overall violent crime decreased by 1.7%
- Murder and non-negligent manslaughter decreased by 6.1%
- Robbery increased by 1.3%
- Rape decreased by 5.4%
- Aggravated assault decreased by 1.1%
- 25% more homicides than in 2019
- 15.1% of incidents were related to religion
- 1.4% of incidents were related to disability
- 51.4% of religion-related incidents were anti-Jewish
- 11.6% of religion-related incidents were anti-Sikh
- 338 instances were specifically anti-transgender
- 131 instances targeted someone who was gender noncomforming
- 56% of all hate crimes were race/ethnicity motivated
The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program generates statistics for law enforcement. The NIBRS system collects data on each crime occurrence.
The FBI’s crime statistics estimates for 2022 show that national violent crime decreased an estimated 1.7% in 2022 compared to 2021 estimates:
- Murder and non-negligent manslaughter recorded a 2022 estimated nationwide decrease of 6.1% compared to the previous year
- In 2022, the estimated number of offenses in the revised rape category saw an estimated 5.4% decrease
- Aggravated assault in 2022 decreased an estimated 1.1% in 2022
- Robbery showed an estimated increase of 1.3% nationally
Hate Crime Statistics, 2022 provides information about the offenses, victims, offenders, and locations of hate crimes. In 2022, law enforcement agency participation significantly increased, resulting in 14,631 law enforcement agencies, with a population coverage of 91.7% submitting incident reports.
These reports involved 11,634 criminal incidents and 13,337 related offenses as being motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity. There were over 11,000 single-bias hate crime incidents involving 13,278 victims and 346 multiple-bias hate crime incidents that involved 433 victims.
In 2022, the top three bias categories in single-bias incidents were race/ethnicity/ancestry, religion, and sexual-orientation. The top bias types within those bias categories by volume of reported hate crime incidents is Anti-Black or African American for race/ethnicity/ancestry bias, Anti-Jewish for religious bias, and Anti-Gay (male) for sexual-orientation bias.
