Simsbury Mentioned in Latest FBI Hate Crime Report

SUFFIELD, CT — The town of Simsbury had an instance of a hate crime last year, according to an FBI report called "Hate Crime Statistics 2015," the federal Uniform Crime Reporting Program’s latest compilation about bias-motivated incidents throughout the nation.

The incidents are broken down into categories that include crimes based on race/ethnicity/ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity.

The report was released on Monday. It shows Simsbury had one instance of a crime based on religion. It took place in the fourth quarter of the year, according to the report.

See a town-by-town breakdown here.

The latest collection marks the 25th anniversary of the FBI gathering and publishing data about bias-motivated crimes. The first publication in 1990 included limited data from just 11 states, according to the FBI.

The collection has grown each year into the wide-ranging report presented Monday, according to the FBI.
Submitted by 14,997 law enforcement agencies across the nation, the 2015 data provide information about the offenses, victims, offenders, and locations of hate crimes, but the UCR Program does not estimate offenses for the jurisdictions of agencies that do not submit reports, according to the FBI.

See the full report here.

Law enforcement agencies submitted incident reports involving 5,850 criminal incidents and 6,885 related offenses as being motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity in 2015.

Photo Credit: FBI