Religious Hate Crime (1734A/23)
Request
a) The number of religious hate crimes recorded in October 2023, October 2022, October 2021, October 2020, October 2019 and October 2018.
b) The number of religious hate crimes in each October listed above, split by perceived religion of the victim (such as Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, other, no religion, unknown)
c) The total number of religious hate crimes recorded in the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and between Jan-Oct 2023, as well as those totals split by the perceived religion of the victim (such as Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, other, no religion, unknown).”
Response
We can confirm that West Midlands Police holds information within the scope of your request, and we are disclosing all that information (please see attached).
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.