Table 2
Police-reported hate crime by most serious violation, Canada, 2006
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Type of violation | Hate crime | ||||||
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number | percent | ||||||
Violent crime | |||||||
Homicide | 1 | 0.1 | |||||
Attempted murder | 2 | 0.2 | |||||
Sexual assault | 1 | 0.1 | |||||
Robbery | 10 | 1.1 | |||||
Assault - total | 208 | 23.3 | |||||
Assault level 1 | 129 | 14.5 | |||||
Assault level 2 (with weapon or causing bodily harm) | 69 | 7.7 | |||||
Assault level 3 (aggravated assault) | 5 | 0.6 | |||||
Assault against peace-public officer | 5 | 0.6 | |||||
Criminal harassment | 30 | 3.4 | |||||
Utter threats to person | 75 | 8.4 | |||||
Total | 327 | 36.7 | |||||
Property crime | |||||||
Mischief | 421 | 47.2 | |||||
Break and enter | 21 | 2.4 | |||||
Theft | 10 | 1.1 | |||||
Arson | 4 | 0.4 | |||||
Fraud | 4 | 0.4 | |||||
Total | 460 | 51.6 | |||||
Other criminal violations | |||||||
Disturb the peace | 6 | 0.7 | |||||
Offences against the person and reputation1 | 49 | 5.5 | |||||
Threatening/harassing phone calls | 22 | 2.5 | |||||
Weapon violations | 3 | 0.3 | |||||
Other2 | 25 | 2.8 | |||||
Total | 105 | 11.8 | |||||
Total | 892 | 100.0 | |||||
1. Includes such offences as defamatory libel, extortion by libel, advocating genocide, and public incitement of hatred. 2. Includes other violations such as failure to comply, offences against public order, and other administration of justice. Note: Includes data from municipal and provincial police services as well as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in British Columbia, covering 87% of the Canadian population. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2.2) Survey and Supplemental Hate Crime Survey. |
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