Resources for Victims of Hate Crimes

Learn about the steps to take if you have experienced or witnessed a hate crime or hate incident. 

The FBI has 56 field offices across the country. You can also dial 9-1-1 or call your local police station to report a hate crime. 

The VictimConnect Resource Center provides phone, chat, and text-based services to all victims of crime, including survivors of hate crimes.  Click below to see their Hate Crimes page, with specific tips and advice for survivors of hate crimes. Call or text VictimConnect at 1-855-484-2846. 

Some states operate hate crime hotlines that provide a safe, anonymous reporting option for victims and witnesses of hate acts by offering a way to report what happened and receive support without contacting the police or law enforcement. The states below offer or are developing DOJ funded hate crime hotlines:

• California vs Hate Resource Line—CA vs Hate at (833) 866-4283 (833-8-NO-HATE)
• Illinois Attorney General’s Civil Rights Hotline at 877-581-3692
• Nevada (coming soon)

In this webinar, intended for youth justice professionals, presenters helped the attendees increase their knowledge around best practices in assisting victims of youth hate crimes, incorporate victim assistance strategies into their programs by sharing examples of current programming, and understand ways to assist those impacted by youth hate and bias-based crimes.

Search the directory to find nonemergency crime victim service programs, including hate crime services,  in the United States and abroad.

DOJ provides funds to several community organizations, service providers and law enforcement agencies to support victims of hate crimes.   For examples and more information, see below and visit the Hate Crimes Grants page or the State Data pages for awards in each state.

• The Community Based Approaches to Prevent and Address Hate Crimes Program
• The Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act Program

This report presents National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data on hate crime victimizations from 2005 to 2019. Hate crimes in the NCVS include violent and property crimes that the victim perceived to be motivated by bias against the victim's race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or religion. It includes crimes reported and not reported to police. The report examines the number of hate crimes over time, characteristics of hate crimes, perceived bias motivations for these hate crimes, reporting to police and reasons hate crimes were not reported, and demographic characteristics of victims and offenders.

• During 2015-19, nearly two-thirds (62%) of hate crime victimizations were simple assaults.
• A bias against the victim’s race, ethnicity, or national origin was the most common motivation for nonfatal violent hate crimes during 2015-19.

Find the latest FBI statistics on hate crimes. 

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) measure a set of criminal offenses that overlap but are not identical, which leads to differences in estimates between the two data sources.