Disability Hate Crimes (779A/21)
Request
- How many disability hate crimes have been recorded by your police force for the last two financial years –2019/20 and 2020/21?
- How many disability hate crimes were committed by repeat offenders (of a previous disability hate crime) in the last two financial years- 2019/20 and 2020/21?
- How many disability hate crimes during each financial year (2019/20 and 2020/21) concerned acts of violence against a person?
- How many incidents of disability hate crime were recorded as taking place online in each financial year (2019/20 and 2020/21)?
- How many of the recorded disability hate crimes in each financial year (2019/20 and 2020/21) resulted in a CPS referral?
- How many of the recorded online disability hate crimes in each financial year (2019/20 and 2020/21) resulted in a CPS referral?
Response
Please find attached our response. Please note for question 4 the data provided is hate crime for with the internet involved marker. Also note for questions 5 and 6 we have provided all outcomes.
Please note that these data should be interpreted with caution. Comparing numbers of incidents/crimes can be misleading and does not necessarily indicate the likelihood of someone being a victim of crime. In addition, the number of incidents/crimes recorded in an area over a period of time can be influenced by a number of factors. Consequently statistics on incidents/crimes for one period may not necessarily be a good indicator of future incidents in that area.
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.