Updated FBI data show 150% more anti-Jewish, anti-Asian hate crimes than agency originally report

The FBI has revised data that shows the agency initially under-reported 2021 hate crimes – with some categories such as anti-Jewish and anti-Asian attacks under-counted by roughly 150%. 

The revised data was released Monday in a supplement to the agency's hate crime statistics for that year that also shows a nearly 50% overall increase in hate crimes than originally reported.

The original number was 7,262 hate-crime incidents and was revised upward to10,840. 

The original report, released in December, showed 324 anti-Jewish hate crimes, compared to the revised number of 851.

For crimes against Asians, the number more than doubles  – from  305 to 746.

Reported hate crimes also increased for other groups in the supplemental report, albeit not as dramatically. 

Comparing December's data to Monday's, anti-Black hate crimes increased by 46%, anti-white by 16% and by 74% for crimes against gay men.

The initial undercounting sparked outrage from some.

"I’m glad to see that the Biden administration is finally providing more accurate data, which they should have done in the first place," said Kenneth Marcus, founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Law.

"It is unfortunate that they didn’t take this action before they were publicly taken to task for the extraordinary incompetence revealed in their prior report. When the private citizens provide false information to the FBI, they get indicted, [but] when the FBI provides false information to the public, they want to do a do-over," he told The Daily Caller News Foundation.