Hate Crimes - 469/2020
How many Racist and Religious Hate Crime* offences were recorded by your police force from 2017 until July 2020? (Please provide a breakdown for each year. Please provide a breakdown for the specific offences.**)
* When I refer to ‘Racist and Religious Hate Crime’, I am referring to the agreed definition shared by the Crown Prosecution Service and the Police: “Any incident/crime which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice based on a person’s race or religion or perceived race or religion.”
** When I refer to ‘specific offences’ I am referring to offences such as wounding, assault, criminal damage, harassment, stalking and threatening/abusive behaviour and stirring up hatred on the grounds of race and religion - which is when someone says or does something which is threatening, abusive or insulting, and the person either intends to stir up racial hatred, or make it likely that racial hatred will be stirred up. It covers behaviour such as making a speech, posting material online, displaying a poster, performing a play or broadcasting on the media. Stirring up religious hatred is limited to threatening words or behaviour.