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FBI Total Numbers (Not Rates) For Violent Victimizations
The following data from the FBI is based on crimes reported to law enforcement. For smaller categories, I use rounded numbers.
Whites were violently victimized 2,125,000 times, African Americans were victimized 1,088,000 times, Asians were victimized 51,000 times, American Indians were victimized 48,000 times, and Pacific Islanders were victimized 9,500 times. The unknown category includes 135,000 violent victimizations.
Per the FBI, Hispanics are captured under ethnicity and not race. A separate chart is offered for Hispanics below.
There are more homicides for African Americans (13.6 percent of the population-9,874) than for Whites (7,879). For all other violent and property crime categories, Whites exceeded all other groups.
I used violent crime data only for this analysis. The FBI considers robbery to be a property crime. Whites were the victims of robbery 97,351 times. African Americans were the victims of robbery 51,243 times.
Rates and totals from the National Crime Victimization Survey are offered below this chart.
Crime Victims By Race
Hispanics
Per the FBI, for 2022, ethnicity was not published in the chart above. They did, however, offer the following table including totals for violent crime. Thus in terms of total numbers, the 843,000 crimes against persons for Hispanics puts Hispanics third behind Whites and African Americans. The unknowns are a significant number, 94,503.
Hispanic crime victims
Violent Rates From The National Crime Victimization Survey
What’s offered below are rates, total numbers are offered after the charts on rates.
Overall violent victimization: For 2022, Whites (24.0) had the highest rates per 1,000 of violent criminal victimization followed by Hispanics (22.6), African Americans (21.8), and Asian-Pacific Islanders (13.6).
The “other” category (58.9) includes persons who identified as American Indian or Alaska Native only “or” as two or more races. Categories are not shown separately due to the small number of sample cases.
Mixed-race individuals have traditionally had the highest rates of violent victimization.
Serious Violent Crimes: In 2022, violent crimes excluding simple assaults (what the Bureau of Justice Statistics calls serious violent crimes) show that Hispanics (11.0) had the highest rate of victimization followed by Whites (9.7), and African Americans (9.0) were third. The lowest category includes Asian-Pacific Islanders (4.8).
The “other” category had, by far, the highest rate of serious violent victimization (25.6).
Note that the order for violent victimizations is different than 2021. There are huge increases in violent crime in 2022 (44 percent per Jeff Asher and The Marshall Project) and large increases in violence for groups per the National Crime Victimization Survey. As an example, for Hispanics, serious violent victimization increased from 5.4 per 1,000 to 11.0. There was also a big increase for Hispanics for all forms of violence in 2022. The unanswered question is why?
A 44 percent increase in violence would be the largest ever recorded. Yet, according to the FBI, violence decreased slightly in 2022.
Violent Victimization By Race
Violent Total Numbers From The National Crime Victimization Survey
There are significant differences in totals of violent crime offered by the FBI via crimes reported to law enforcement versus totalsoffered by the National Crime Victimization Survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the US Department of Justice. I use rounded numbers.
The National Crime Victimization Survey states that there were 6,230,000 violent crime incidents in 2022. Crime incidents are distinguished from victimizations in that one crime may have multiple victims.
The FBI offers 3,456,000 violent crimes in 2022, thus readers can see the numerical difference between reported (FBI) and total crimes via the National Crime Victimization Survey.
There were 3,858,000 violent incidents for Whites, 1,073,000 for Hispanics, 721,000 for African Americans, and 252,000 for Asian-Pacific Islanders.
Total numbers of crime victims by race.
Offenders
Per Criminal Victimization from the National Crime Victimization Survey:
In 2022, the proportion of violent incidents involving white offenders (53%), based on victims’ perceptions of the offenders, was lower than the share of white persons in the population (61%). The share of Asian offenders and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander offenders (2%) was less than the share of Asian persons and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander persons in the population (7%). The share of violent incidents involving Hispanic offenders (14%) was less than the population percentage of Hispanic persons (18%). The share of violent incidents involving black offenders (25%) was greater than the population percentage of black persons (12%).
There’s more on victims and offenders at Violent Criminal Victimization By Race Or Hispanic Origin.
Conclusions
Total numbers offered by the FBI and the National Crime Victimization Survey are interesting but somewhat challenging as a method of understanding violent criminal victimization by race or ethnicity. For that reason, I will use rates from the National Crime Victimization Survey.
Thus the best data we have for groups victimized is rates from the much larger numbers produced by the National Crime Victimization Survey.
As stated above, Whites (24.0) had higher rates per 1,000 for violent crimes in 2022, followed by Hispanics (22.6) and African Americans (21.8).
Excluding simple assaults, what the National Crime Victimization Survey calls “serious violent crimes,” Hispanics had higher rates per 1,000 (11.0) than Whites (9.7) and African Americans (9.0).
Asian-Pacific Islanders (4.8) had the lowest rates.
By far, the “other” category (25.6) had the highest rates, probably dominated by people of two or more races.
Do We Need To Consider Other Factors Beyond Race And Ethnicity To Understand Violent Victimization And Groups ?
Anyways I suppose it’s not
The following data from the FBI is based on crimes reported to law enforcement. For smaller categories, I use rounded numbers.
Whites were violently victimized 2,125,000 times, African Americans were victimized 1,088,000 times, Asians were victimized 51,000 times, American Indians were victimized 48,000 times, and Pacific Islanders were victimized 9,500 times. The unknown category includes 135,000 violent victimizations.
Per the FBI, Hispanics are captured under ethnicity and not race. A separate chart is offered for Hispanics below.
There are more homicides for African Americans (13.6 percent of the population-9,874) than for Whites (7,879). For all other violent and property crime categories, Whites exceeded all other groups.
I used violent crime data only for this analysis. The FBI considers robbery to be a property crime. Whites were the victims of robbery 97,351 times. African Americans were the victims of robbery 51,243 times.
Rates and totals from the National Crime Victimization Survey are offered below this chart.
Crime Victims By RaceHispanics
Per the FBI, for 2022, ethnicity was not published in the chart above. They did, however, offer the following table including totals for violent crime. Thus in terms of total numbers, the 843,000 crimes against persons for Hispanics puts Hispanics third behind Whites and African Americans. The unknowns are a significant number, 94,503.
Hispanic crime victimsViolent Rates From The National Crime Victimization Survey
What’s offered below are rates, total numbers are offered after the charts on rates.
Overall violent victimization: For 2022, Whites (24.0) had the highest rates per 1,000 of violent criminal victimization followed by Hispanics (22.6), African Americans (21.8), and Asian-Pacific Islanders (13.6).
The “other” category (58.9) includes persons who identified as American Indian or Alaska Native only “or” as two or more races. Categories are not shown separately due to the small number of sample cases.
Mixed-race individuals have traditionally had the highest rates of violent victimization.
Serious Violent Crimes: In 2022, violent crimes excluding simple assaults (what the Bureau of Justice Statistics calls serious violent crimes) show that Hispanics (11.0) had the highest rate of victimization followed by Whites (9.7), and African Americans (9.0) were third. The lowest category includes Asian-Pacific Islanders (4.8).
The “other” category had, by far, the highest rate of serious violent victimization (25.6).
Note that the order for violent victimizations is different than 2021. There are huge increases in violent crime in 2022 (44 percent per Jeff Asher and The Marshall Project) and large increases in violence for groups per the National Crime Victimization Survey. As an example, for Hispanics, serious violent victimization increased from 5.4 per 1,000 to 11.0. There was also a big increase for Hispanics for all forms of violence in 2022. The unanswered question is why?
A 44 percent increase in violence would be the largest ever recorded. Yet, according to the FBI, violence decreased slightly in 2022.
Violent Victimization By RaceViolent Total Numbers From The National Crime Victimization Survey
There are significant differences in totals of violent crime offered by the FBI via crimes reported to law enforcement versus totalsoffered by the National Crime Victimization Survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the US Department of Justice. I use rounded numbers.
The National Crime Victimization Survey states that there were 6,230,000 violent crime incidents in 2022. Crime incidents are distinguished from victimizations in that one crime may have multiple victims.
The FBI offers 3,456,000 violent crimes in 2022, thus readers can see the numerical difference between reported (FBI) and total crimes via the National Crime Victimization Survey.
There were 3,858,000 violent incidents for Whites, 1,073,000 for Hispanics, 721,000 for African Americans, and 252,000 for Asian-Pacific Islanders.
Total numbers of crime victims by race.Offenders
Per Criminal Victimization from the National Crime Victimization Survey:
In 2022, the proportion of violent incidents involving white offenders (53%), based on victims’ perceptions of the offenders, was lower than the share of white persons in the population (61%). The share of Asian offenders and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander offenders (2%) was less than the share of Asian persons and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander persons in the population (7%). The share of violent incidents involving Hispanic offenders (14%) was less than the population percentage of Hispanic persons (18%). The share of violent incidents involving black offenders (25%) was greater than the population percentage of black persons (12%).
There’s more on victims and offenders at Violent Criminal Victimization By Race Or Hispanic Origin.
Conclusions
Total numbers offered by the FBI and the National Crime Victimization Survey are interesting but somewhat challenging as a method of understanding violent criminal victimization by race or ethnicity. For that reason, I will use rates from the National Crime Victimization Survey.
Thus the best data we have for groups victimized is rates from the much larger numbers produced by the National Crime Victimization Survey.
As stated above, Whites (24.0) had higher rates per 1,000 for violent crimes in 2022, followed by Hispanics (22.6) and African Americans (21.8).
Excluding simple assaults, what the National Crime Victimization Survey calls “serious violent crimes,” Hispanics had higher rates per 1,000 (11.0) than Whites (9.7) and African Americans (9.0).
Asian-Pacific Islanders (4.8) had the lowest rates.
By far, the “other” category (25.6) had the highest rates, probably dominated by people of two or more races.
Do We Need To Consider Other Factors Beyond Race And Ethnicity To Understand Violent Victimization And Groups ?
Anyways I suppose it’s not
