#Hate_crime is on the rise, but police are taking less action against suspects
The chances of police or prosecutors taking action against hate crime offenders have plummeted over the last year, new figures show.
Victims of hate crime now have only a one in four chance of seeing a perpetrator charged, cautioned or dealt with in some other way by the police – down from one in three in the previous year, data obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals.
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The total numbers of reported hate crimes have soared by 20% over the past year (from 50,288 to 60,225), with 34 out of the 40 forces recording a rise in offences. But despite this increase, in most of these forces police and prosecutors took action in fewer cases last year than previously.
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What is hate crime?
In 2014/15, the most recent period for which a breakdown is available, 82% of hate offences recorded were race hate crimes, 11% related to sexual orientation, 6% to religion, 5% to disability and 1% to the victim’s transgender identity. In some cases a single hate offence had more than one motivating factor.
▻https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2016/07/26/hate-crime-rise-police-taking-less-action-suspects
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