Hate Crimes Statistics

University Police in collaboration with other offices on campus investigate hate crimes. 

A perpetrator of a hate crime is defined as someone who intentionally commits the act or acts constituting the offense in whole or in substantial part because of a belief or perception regarding the race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation of a person, regardless of whether the belief or perception is correct. (See New York Penal Law 485.05) When a person is victimized intentionally because of her/his actual or perceived race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or disability. Examples of hate crimes may include, but are not limited to: 

• threatening phone calls, 
• hate mail (including electronic mail), 
• physical assaults, 
• vandalism, 
• destruction of property, 
• and fire bombings.