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However, the DDA cautioned against reading too much from small statistical samples, pointing out that the vast majority of hate incidents do not get referred to the District Attorney's office. Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney (DDA) Jay Boyarsky attributed a surge in anti-gay hate crimes, from 3 in 2007 to 14 in 2008, to controversy over Proposition 8. Of these, only one murder and one forcible rape were committed due to racial bias, whereas five murders and six rapes were committed based on sexual orientation. 4,704 crimes were committed due to racial bias and 1,617 were committed due to sexual orientation. Of those crimes, 72.23% were violent in nature. In 2008, 17.6% of hate crimes were based on the victim's perceived sexual orientation. The 2006 annual report, released on November 19, 2007, also said that hate crimes based on sexual orientation are the third most common type, behind race and religion. The FBI reported that for 2006, hate crimes against gay people increased from 14% to 16% in 2005, as percentage of total documented hate crimes across the U.S. In 2004, the FBI reported that 14% of hate crimes due to perceived sexual orientation were against lesbians, 2% against heterosexuals and 1% against bisexuals. Additionally, 0.5% of all hate crimes were based on perceived gender identity. Sixty-one percent of those attacks were against gay men. In 2014, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that 20.8% of hate crimes reported to police in 2013 was founded on perceived sexual orientation.
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The history of violence against LGBT people in the United States is made up of assaults on gay men, lesbians, bisexual, and transgender individuals ( LGBT), legal responses to such violence, and hate crime statistics in the United States of America. A memorial in May 2013 where Mark Carson, a 32-year-old black gay man, was shot to death by another man who trailed and taunted him and a friend as they walked down the street in New York City's Greenwich Village