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=== Anti-homosexual violence ===

=== Anti-homosexual violence ===

For 2005, the FBI reported 1,171 anti-gay violent crimes. <ref>U.S. Department of Justice — Federal Bureau of Investigation, [http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2005/table4.htm Uniform Crime Reports], Offense Type by Bias Motivation, 2005 Table 4. </ref>  Violent crimes are defined as murder,  

For 2005, the FBI reported 1,171 anti-gay violent crimes. <ref>U.S. Department of Justice — Federal Bureau of Investigation, [http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2005/table4.htm Uniform Crime Reports], Offense Type by Bias Motivation, 2005 Table 4. </ref>  While the FBI reports statistics by victim class or bias motivation, race, religion, sexual rientation an disability, the FBI only reports offender statistics by race; thus it is not possible to measure how much gay-on-gay anti-homosexual violence occurs versus homosexual victims of heterosexual offenders.  Neither do the statistics include  senior citizens, homeless, military personnel, or battered pregnant by their boyfriends and husbands after becoming pregnent -- all known victim classes of hate crime attacks.

nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, aggravated assault, simple assault, intimidation, and other.  For the general population, the FBI reports a violent crime rate of 20 victims per 1000 US persons <ref>U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics[http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/viort.htm Violent Crime Rates]</ref> or 1 in 50 of the overall population.  This would seem to indicate, unless the homosexual population of the United States is slightly more than 500,000, the incidence of violence against gays is much lower than the overall population by an order of several magnitutdes.  In all of 2004, there was 1 anti-homosexual murder in the United States, and the FBI has reported none since.  <ref>U.S. Department of Justice — Federal Bureau of Investigation, [http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2004/tables/HateCrime2004.pdf Uniform Crime Reports], Offense Type by Bias Motivation, 2004 Table 4. </ref>

 

Violent crimes are defined as murder,  

nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, aggravated assault, simple assault, intimidation, and other.  For the general population, the FBI reports a violent crime rate of 20 victims per 1000 US persons <ref>U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics[http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/viort.htm Violent Crime Rates]</ref> or 1 in 50 of the overall population.  This would seem to indicate, unless the homosexual population of the United States is slightly more than 500,000, the incidence of violence against gays is much lower than the overall population by an order of several magnitutdes.  In all of 2004, there was 1 anti-homosexual murder in the United States, and the FBI has reported none since.  <ref>U.S. Department of Justice — Federal Bureau of Investigation, [http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2004/tables/HateCrime2004.pdf Uniform Crime Reports], Offense Type by Bias Motivation, 2004 Table 4. </ref>  Over the same time period there were over 32,000 murders and nonnegligent manslaughters reported in the general population.  <ref>U.S. Department of Justice — Federal Bureau of Investigation, [http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_01.html Crime in the United States

], by Volume and Rate per 100,000 Inhabitants, 1986 - 2005,Table 1. </ref>

==See also==

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