The FBI just released detailed data on over 14 million criminal offenses for 2023 reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program by participating law enforcement agencies. Over 16,000 state, county, city, university and college, and tribal agencies, covering a combined population of 94.3% inhabitants, submitted data to the UCR Program through the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and the Summary Reporting System.
The data reveals that reported hate crime incidents were a new high of 11,862 in 2023. Although Jews only make up around 2% of the U.S. population, reported single-bias anti-Jewish hate crimes were 15% of all hate crimes reported and 68% of all reported religion-based hate crimes. Hate crimes were defined as offenses being motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity.
The FBI’s crime statistics estimates, based on reported data for 2023, show that national violent crime decreased an estimated 3.0% in 2023 compared to 2022:
- Murder and non-negligent manslaughter recorded a 2023 estimated nationwide decrease of 11.6% compared to 2022.
- In 2023, the estimated number of offenses in the revised rape category saw an estimated 9.4% decrease.
- Aggravated assault decreased an estimated 2.8% in 2023.
- Robbery decreased 0.3% nationally.
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 UCR Program for 2022 and 2023. According to this dataset, reported hate crime incidents decreased 0.6% from 10,687 in 2022 to 10,627 in 2023.
The complete analysis is located on the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.
