TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 24, 2022

An annual report on hate crimes in Tennessee found a slight uptick in offenses that law enforcement tied to a known bias, Axios Nashville reports. The data, based on a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation report released this week, showed 133 crimes in 2021 were attributed to a bias compared to 122 in 2020. Racial bias accounted for 58% of the incidents statewide while biases related to sexuality or gender were found in 23% of cases.