Hate crime in England and Wales: how prevalent is it?

Is hate crime a much bigger problem than it seems? While the police record just under 43,000 hate crimes a year - about 1% of all recorded crimes - another source suggests that the real figure could be more than six times that amount.

There are two main methods for testing the amount of hate crime each year, with one of those being the offences recorded by police. The other is the Crime survey for England and Wales (CSEW), which tries to gauge the number of crimes both reported and unreported.

The Home Office published a report today looking at both of these sources. They are not directly comparable as the police figures are based on financial years and the sample sizes of the CSEW are so small that they have to combine 2011-12 and 2012-13 figures to give a yearly average.

Nevertheless, the CSEW suggests that there are actually about 278,000 hate crimes a year, which is way above the number recorded by the police.

Admittedly, the CSEW says that only 40% of these crimes are being reported, which is a similar level to most crimes. However, 60% of 278,000 is much more than 43,000. So what's going on?

What is hate crime and how does it break down?

When police are recording an offence they have the chance to tick a box saying one of the five "strands" of hate crime was a motivating factor. Those five-strands are race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and gender-identity.

The CSEW figures at first glance suggest that the police figures do not reflect the true spread of hate crime. While in both sources race is the predominant hate crime motivation, the disability and religion numbers take up a much bigger proportion of crimes in the CSEW........(Breakdown at link)

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/dec/17/how-prevalent-hate-crime-england-wales

How many convictions?

How many of these crimes would a grown up consider to be serious?

How many tax payers think that most of these so called crimes are a waste of money?

Intimidation By Muslim Groups Causing Police To Exaggerate Hate Crime Statistics For Some Groups, Lower Them For Some Other Groups

http://www.mererhetoric.com/2008/03/26/intimidation-by-muslim-groups-causing-police-to-exaggerate-hate-crime-statistics-for-some-groups-lower-them-for-some-other-groups/

Mind you this is in the US not England.

BigAndy9 wrote:How many convictions?

How many of these crimes would a grown up consider to be serious?

How many tax payers think that most of these so called crimes are a waste of money?

You know Andy, sometimes you are so desperately macho is makes me wonder what you are trying to cover up.

Sassy wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:How many convictions?

How many of these crimes would a grown up consider to be serious?

How many tax payers think that most of these so called crimes are a waste of money?

You know Andy, sometimes you are so desperately macho is makes me wonder what you are trying to cover up.

Ah you know what they say............

Veritas wrote:Intimidation By Muslim Groups Causing Police To Exaggerate Hate Crime Statistics For Some Groups, Lower Them For Some Other Groups

http://www.mererhetoric.com/2008/03/26/intimidation-by-muslim-groups-causing-police-to-exaggerate-hate-crime-statistics-for-some-groups-lower-them-for-some-other-groups/

Mind you this is in the US not England.

Oh those bloody Muslims again!!!!!!!!!

SEXY MAMA wrote:

Sassy wrote:


You know Andy, sometimes you are so desperately macho is makes me wonder what you are trying to cover up.

Ah you know what they say............

I do know that if the insult had been aimed the other way dummies would have been spat