Antisemitic Crimes and Non-Criminal Antisemitic Incidents 2017-2020
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Publication Number
PUB 1242
FOI Reference Number
15618
Request Title
Antisemitic Crimes & Non-Criminal Antisemitic Incidents
Date Range
2018-2020
Information Requested
Question 1a
If Essex Police flags antisemitic crimes separately, please provide us with:
The total number of antisemitic crimes recorded in each month of 2018, 2019 and 2020.
The total number of antisemitic violent crimes recorded, in each month of 2018, 2019 and 2020, which fell into the Home Office categories of “homicide”, “violence with injury” and “racially or religiously aggravated assault without injury”.
The total number of antisemitic crimes, in each month of 2018, 2019 and 2020, that resulted in charges being brought.
The total number of antisemitic non-criminal incidents recorded in each month of 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Question 1b
If Essex Police does not flag antisemitic crimes separately, please search for crimes and non-criminal incidents in your CRIS using the following whole keywords (i.e. not parts of words, but whole words, so that when you search for “Jew”, entries containing “jewellery” are not returned). Since use of all the keywords might prevent you from answering this FOI request due to excessive cost, please only use the keywords (starting at the top) that can be used without incurring excessive cost.
The keywords are:
Jew/Jews/Jewish/Judaism
Semite/Semitic/Semitism
Antisemite/Antisemitic/Antisemitism
Yid/Yids/Yiddo/Yiddish
When responding to Q1 or Q1a, please use the following table format, with the following headings:
Month
Number of antisemitic crimes recorded
Number of antisemitic crimes involving allegations of violence*
Number of antisemitic crimes resulting in charges being brought
Number of antisemitic incidents reported
*For the purpose of this request, antisemitic crimes involving allegations of violence are those antisemitic crimes which fell into the Home Office categories of “homicide”, “violence with injury” and “racially or religiously aggravated assault without injury”.
Question 2
Please provide us with the name, e-mail address and telephone number of Essex Police’s single point of contact (SPOC) for antisemitic crime, or if Essex Police does not have a SPOC specifically for antisemitic crime, then please provide the name, e-mail address and telephone number of the SPOC for hate crime generally.
Disclosure with Exemptions
Full Disclosure
Information Correct as at
18 August 2021
Date of Disclosure
09 September 2021
Related Documents/Links
N/A
FOI 15618 Response
Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, Essex Police can confirm in respect of Section 1(1)(b) the following data:
Caveats: The data is correct as at 18 August 2021.
The Hate Incident Type Dimension was selected to have the ‘Hate incident – religious – Jewish’ Option.
The Home Office Classification of ‘NC/10’ was used to bring back all relevant Hate Crime Offences and Records.
Set of dates: 01 January 2018 to 31 December 2020.
Answering Question 1b for this FOI is not applicable since Essex Police do flag Antisemitic Crimes Separately.
The total number of Antisemitic Crimes recorded in each month of 2018, 2019 and 2020.
A total of 159 Antisemitic Crimes were recorded from 2018 to 2020. The monthly breakdown of these crimes is shown in the table below:
|
Month |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
January |
1 |
5 |
11 |
|
February |
2 |
6 |
5 |
|
March |
2 |
6 |
4 |
|
April |
7 |
7 |
3 |
|
May |
3 |
4 |
3 |
|
June |
4 |
5 |
6 |
|
July |
4 |
5 |
2 |
|
August |
1 |
6 |
3 |
|
September |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
October |
16 |
1 |
5 |
|
November |
3 |
5 |
2 |
|
December |
7 |
4 |
2 |
|
Total |
53 |
57 |
49 |
|
Overall Total |
159 |
||
The total number of Antisemitic Violent Crimes recorded in each month of 2018, 2019 and 2020, which fell into the Home Office Categories of “Homicide”, “Violence with Injury” and “Racially or Religiously Aggravated Assault without Injury”.
No Antisemitic Crimes were recorded from 2018 to 2020 which fell into the Home Office Category of “Homicide”.
Only two Violence with Injury Antisemitic Crimes were recorded from 2018 to 2020. These are shown in the below table:
|
Year |
Month |
Crime Type |
Number of crimes |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2018 |
October |
Violence With Injury |
1 |
|
2019 |
August |
Violence With Injury |
1 |
|
Total |
2 |
A total of seven Racially or Religiously Aggravated Assault without Injury Antisemitic Hate Crimes were recorded from 2018 to 2020. These are shown in the table below:
|
Year |
Month |
Crime Type |
Number of crimes |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2018 |
February |
Racially or religiously aggravated common assault or beating |
1 |
|
2018 |
May |
Racially or religiously aggravated common assault or beating |
1 |
|
2019 |
August |
Racially or religiously aggravated common assault or beating |
1 |
|
2019 |
September |
Racially or religiously aggravated common assault or beating |
1 |
|
2020 |
March |
Racially or religiously aggravated common assault or beating |
1 |
|
2020 |
April |
Racially or religiously aggravated common assault or beating |
1 |
|
2020 |
May |
Racially or religiously aggravated common assault or beating |
1 |
|
Total |
7 |
The total number of Antisemitic Crimes in each month of 2018, 2019 and 2020 that resulted in charges being brought.
Ten of the Antisemitic Hate Crimes resulted in charges being brought forward from 2018 to 2020. The monthly breakdown of these incidents is shown in the table below:
|
Month |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
January |
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|
February |
|||
|
March |
1 |
||
|
April |
2 |
||
|
May |
1 |
||
|
June |
|||
|
July |
2 |
||
|
August |
|||
|
September |
|||
|
October |
2 |
||
|
November |
1 |
||
|
December |
1 |
||
|
Total |
2 |
6 |
2 |
|
Overall Total |
10 |
||
The total number of Antisemitic Non-Criminal Incidents recorded in each month of 2018, 2019 and 2020.
A total of 41 Antisemitic Non-Crimes were recorded from 2018 to 2020. The monthly breakdown of these incidents is shown in the table below:
|
Month |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
January |
1 |
1 |
|
|
February |
1 |
||
|
March |
2 |
||
|
May |
1 |
2 |
|
|
June |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
July |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
August |
1 |
1 |
|
|
September |
2 |
3 |
1 |
|
October |
4 |
6 |
1 |
|
November |
3 |
2 |
|
|
December |
2 |
||
|
Total |
17 |
16 |
8 |
|
Overall Total |
41 |
||
Please provide us with the name, e-mail address and telephone number of Essex Police’s single point of contact (SPOC) for Antisemitic Crime, or if Essex Police does not have a SPOC specifically for Antisemitic Crime, then please provide the name, e-mail address and telephone number of the SPOC for Hate Crime generally.
There is no Antisemitic Hate Crime Lead, just a generic Hate Crime Lead – please see below details:
Name: Superintendent Richard Melton
E-mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 101 extension 42000168.
Essex Police do have good working relationships with the Community Security Trust and meet with them regularly to discuss any Hate Crime issues pertaining to Jewish communities.
Every effort is made to ensure that the data provided by Essex Police is accurate and complete. However, Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries. Please note although data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the results may be subject to inaccuracies. Care should be taken to understand our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the data.
The Force Information Management Board chaired by the Deputy Chief Constable has oversight of the Force wide programme of work to improve the quality of Force data. This work has identified data quality leads in all key areas of the business including the Crime and Public Protection Command. Liaison between the Force Data Quality Team and the Crime and Public Protection Command lead for data quality will identify and resolve issues through a variety of mechanisms to ensure regular and appropriate supervisory oversight.
FOI Reference Number
16117
Request Title
Antisemitic Crimes & Non-Criminal Antisemitic Incidents
Date Range
2017
Information Requested
The total number of antisemitic crimes recorded in each month of 2017.
The total number of antisemitic violent crimes recorded, in each month of 2017, which fell into the Home Office categories of “homicide”, “violence with injury” and “racially or religiously aggravated assault without injury”.
The total number of antisemitic crimes, in each month of 2017, that resulted in charges being brought.
The total number of antisemitic non-criminal incidents recorded in each month of 2017.
Disclosure with Exemptions
Full Disclosure
Information Correct as at
09 September 2021
Date of Disclosure
10 September 2021
Related Documents/Links
N/A
FOI 16117 Response
Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, Essex Police can confirm in respect of Section 1(1)(b) the following data:
Caveats: The data is correct as at 09 September 2021.
The Hate Incident Type Dimension was selected to have the ‘Hate incident – religious – Jewish’ Option.
The Home Office Classification of ‘NC/10’ was used to bring back all relevant Hate Crime Offences and Records.
Set of dates: 01 January 2017 to 31 December 2017.
The total number of Antisemitic Crimes recorded in each month of 2017.
A total of 30 Antisemitic Crimes were recorded in the calendar year of 2017. The monthly breakdown of these crimes is shown in the table below:
|
Month |
2017 |
|---|---|
|
January |
3 |
|
February |
1 |
|
March |
1 |
|
April |
2 |
|
May |
1 |
|
June |
8 |
|
July |
1 |
|
September |
1 |
|
November |
5 |
|
December |
7 |
|
Total |
30 |
The total number of Antisemitic Violent Crimes recorded in each month of 2017, which fell into the Home Office categories of “Homicide”, “Violence with Injury” and “Racially or Religiously Aggravated Assault without Injury”.
No Antisemitic Crimes were recorded in the calendar year of 2017 which fell into the Home Office Category of “Homicide”.
Only one Violence with Injury Antisemitic Crime was recorded in the calendar year of 2017. This is shown in the below table:
|
Year |
Month |
Crime Type |
Number of crimes |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2017 |
November |
Violence With Injury |
1 |
|
|
|
Total |
1 |
Two Racially or Religiously Aggravated Assault without Injury Antisemitic Hate Crimes were recorded during the calendar year of 2017. These are shown in the table below:
|
Year |
Month |
Crime Type |
Number of crimes |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2017 |
April |
Racially or religiously aggravated common assault or beating |
1 |
|
2017 |
June |
Racially or religiously aggravated common assault or beating |
1 |
|
|
|
Total |
2 |
The total number of Antisemitic Crimes in each month of 2017 that resulted in charges being brought.
Only one of the Antisemitic Hate Crimes resulted in charges being brought forward in 2017. This is shown in the table below:
|
Month |
2017 |
|---|---|
|
December |
1 |
|
Total |
1 |
The total number of Antisemitic Non-Criminal Incidents recorded in each month of 2017.
A total of 12 Antisemitic Non-Crimes were recorded during the calendar year of 2017. The monthly breakdown of these incidents is shown in the table below:
|
Month |
2017 |
|---|---|
|
January |
|
|
February |
1 |
|
March |
6 |
|
April |
|
|
May |
|
|
June |
|
|
July |
1 |
|
August |
2 |
|
September |
2 |
|
October |
|
|
November |
|
|
December |
|
|
Total |
12 |
Every effort is made to ensure that the data provided by Essex Police is accurate and complete. However, Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries. Please note although data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the results may be subject to inaccuracies. Care should be taken to understand our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the data.
The Force Information Management Board chaired by the Deputy Chief Constable has oversight of the Force wide programme of work to improve the quality of Force data. This work has identified data quality leads in all key areas of the business including the Crime and Public Protection Command. Liaison between the Force Data Quality Team and the Crime and Public Protection Command lead for data quality will identify and resolve issues through a variety of mechanisms to ensure regular and appropriate supervisory oversight.