Crime Incidents: Crimes and Police-Reported Crime

crime incidents: Unfortunately, hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation are primarily violent, with the largest group of victims being male, according to Georgia Asian. Also, black Canadians remain the most targeted racial group for hate crimes. The good news is that violent hate crimes against specific groups are decreasing. While hate crimes represented only a very small percentage of all police-reported crime in Canada, police reported 1,414 hate-motivated criminal incidents in 2012. Although hate crime incidents related to sexual orientation were the smallest of the three most reported hate crimes, they were also the most violent, with 67 percent being violent offences. According to Statistics Canada, the majority of all hate crimes 704 incidents, or 52 percent were racially or ethnically motivated hatred while 419 incidents 30 percent were religious-related hate crimes and 185 incidents 13 percent were motivated by hatred of sexual orientation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.