Hate Crime (2494/20 )
Request
Please provide details of the number of incidents recorded where race or religion was an aggravating factor on the following days:
January 31, 2020
Feb 1, 2020
January 31, 2019
Feb 1, 2019
January 31, 2018
Feb 1, 2018
January 31, 2017
Feb 1, 2017
January 31, 2016
Feb 1, 2016
Please provide details of the type of crime and the number of incident:
eg. GBH 3, ABH 4. Please also provide separate figures for racially aggravated and religiously aggravated crimes (ie. don’t combine the two.)
Response
Please find attached our response.
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.