Several hours later, however, the police formally classified her as a missing person, but said it was not necessarily a criminal matter.

The police classified the attack as a hate crime.

Initially, the police classified the case as arson but said they had no evidence of a bias motive.

The police have classified the man's death as suspicious.

The boat captain is never caught and the police classify the incident as an accident.

Meanwhile, police have officially classified the death as suicide.

The police have classified the death as an accident, but the investigation remains open.

Needless to say, the police did not classify it as a racist murder.

The police have not formally classified the incident as bias-motivated.

Statistics are hard to come by because the police generally do not classify assaults according to motivation.