November 25, 2002
Source: FBI National Press Office
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel02/2001hc.htm
On November 25, 2002 FBI National Press Office issued a press release stating that "The Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI's) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program today released the final hate crime data for 2001 in its annual publication, Hate Crime Statistics. During 2001, state and local law enforcement agencies reported to the FBI 9,730 incidents which involved 11,451 separate offenses. Hate Crime Statistics, 2001, can be found on the FBI's Internet site at http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm