Table 2
Police-reported hate crime by most serious violation, Canada, 2006

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Type of violation Hate crime
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.