rise in hate crimes against disabled people

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Hates crimes against disabled people in London have soared by 20 per cent over the past year.

The capital saw 60 people convicted for crimes against disabled people in 2015, up from 55 the year before.

The Crown Prosecution Service also brought a further 41 unsuccessful cases to court, up from 34 the previous year.

Across England and Wales, the CPS completed 941 prosecutions for disability hate crime in 2015/2016, an increase of 41.3 per cent on the previous year when it completed 666 cases.

The figures were released as part of the Service's eighth Hate Crime Report, which is published annually.

Rise in hate crimes against disabled people in London

vile and despicable

 

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Rise in hate crimes against disabled people in London

vile and despicable

You mean the journalism?

Hates crimes against disabled people in London have soared by 20 per cent over the past year.

The capital saw 60 people convicted for crimes against disabled people in 2015, up from 55 the year before .

That is not 20%

The Crown Prosecution Service also brought a further 41 unsuccessful cases to court, up from 34 the previous year.

Even if you include these non-crimes that is still not 20%

 

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ah, if you only include the non-crimes its 20%, so the correct headline should be the number of people found not guilty of disability hate crime has risen 20%

 

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The CPS report this draws on is here

Hate Crime and Crimes Against Older People

The Times version is

Hate crime against disabled people has risen by more than 40 per cent in a year, including assaults and verbal abuse.

There were 941 prosecutions for disability hate crime in 2015-16, a rise of 41 per cent compared with the previous 12 months, according to the Crown Prosecution Service’s hate crime annual report.

The number of disabled people suffering may be far higher as campaigners say it is an underreported crime.

The report, to be released this morning, will also reveal a general rise in hate-fuelled violence and abuse based on religion, race and homophobia.

The CPS prosecuted a record 15,422 hate crimes in the past year, a 4.8 per cent rise compared with the previous year. It included 13,032 prosecutions for racially and religiously aggravated hate crime, a rise of 1.9 per cent in 12 months.

There was a 15 per cent increase in homophobic and transphobic hate crime prosecutions, up to 1,469.

Hate crime comprises offences across the spectrum from abuse on social media to verbal abuse and assaults. The conviction rate across all strands of hate crime was 83.2 per cent.

 

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I made a mistake on the other thread btw when I said all forms of hate crimes have been shown to be rising, that was based on incidents reported to police which are, but according to the Crime Survey hate crimes fell in the most recent period. So there might be some truth in the police claim that crimes are more likely to be reported rather than increasing.

There is one very strange disparity, the number of hate crimes against disabled people in the most recent period according to the crime survey is 70,000. However of the 52,528 hate crimes recorded by police in the same period, just 2,508 were disability hate crimes. The crime survey is based on a survey of 50,000 people and their recent experience of crime, so whilst its not a huge sample (but is about the standard size for national statistics) it is probably a better measure of whats actually going on, rather than how many people are reporting things to the police etc.

The above disparity may just mean using the Crime Survey to monitor hate crime is worthless as the sample is too small, yet there isn't the same level of disparity for racially motivated crimes, about half of which are recorded by police. Even stranger is that the crime survey asks if people made the crime known to police, and records that 48% of people reported hate crime (higher incidentally than non-hate crimes, although this is likely to do with the type of offence).

So to break it down roughly, the police record about 50,000 hate crimes a years, the crime survey says there is four times that amount at 200,000 and that half of those, 100,000 were reported to police. That's 50,000 missing crimes which seem to be disproportionately disability hate crimes, which suggests that police are ignoring, or not recording a lot of disability hate crimes reported to them.

 

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heres the most recent report btw: Hate crime, England and Wales, 2014 to 2015 - Publications - GOV.UK