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| Author | joejag |
| Comment | Hearing bad experiences like this makes me want to learn more and see if we have data to indicate rates we can use to see trends. There's a 2021 government publication on "Characteristics of police recorded hate crime in Scotland" which uses police data to show relative rates. One of the things that jumped out to me was that hate crimes were committed by strangers only 19% of the time, and 57% of the time it is by an acquaintance. The data show Edinburgh and Glasgow to have the same incidence rate of hate crimes with racial hate crimes by far the most recorded. Sexual orientation hate crime have shown the biggest rise over the last decade. The incidents of hate crime have been pretty constant since the current record system was introduced in 2013. So we can't pretend things are getting better over time. Oddly enough, to me, Falkirk shows the next highest rate of hate crimes after the two big cities: https://www.gov.scot/publications/study-characteristics-police-recorded-hate-crime-scotland/pages/6/ This obviously only includes crimes that were reported to the police, it's depressing reading. But you can learn more by reading over the publication. The bits on disability hate crime were new to me. If you want to see UK trends, which calculate by individuals involved rather than crimes, you can see them at https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8537/CBP-8537.pdf We can all do better to reduce our own ignorance and that of our family/friends/co-workers. |
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| Created | Tue 29th Nov 2022 9:18pm |
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