Hate Crime Statistics

KEYWORDS

Hate Crime, Race, Ethnicity, Religion, Sexual Orientation, Disability, Transgender, Homophobic, Disability, Age, Hate Incidents, Religious, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Hate Motivating, Hate Crime, Hate Non-crime

PUBLICATION NUMBER

PUB 1119

FOI REFERENCE NUMBER(S)

15131

REQUEST TITLE

Hate Crime Statistics

DATE RANGE

1st January 2016 to 31st December 2020

INFORMATION REQUESTED

Under the Freedom of Information Act, please could you provide your hate crime statistics for the past five years, broken down by the following categories:

• Race or ethnicity
• Religion or beliefs
• Sexual orientation
• Disability
• Transgender identity

DISCLOSURE WITH EXEMPTIONS

INFORMATION CORRECT AS AT

7th January 2021

DATE OF DISCLOSURE

18.1.2021

RELATED DOCUMENTS

FOI 15131 RESPONSE

Thank you for your enquiry which has been logged under the above reference.

Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) places two duties on public authorities. Unless exemptions apply, the first duty at Section 1(1)(a) is to confirm or deny whether the information specified in a request is held.  The second duty at Section 1(1)(b) is to disclose information that has been confirmed as being held. Where exemptions are relied upon Section 17 of FOIA requires that we provide the applicant with a notice which: a) states that fact b) specifies the exemption(s) in question and c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.

In respect of your enquiry:

Under the Freedom of Information Act, please could you provide your hate crime statistics for the past five years, broken down by the following categories:

• Race or ethnicity
• Religion or beliefs
• Sexual orientation
• Disability
• Transgender identity

Having completed enquiries within Essex Police and in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold some data relating to your request, Essex Police can confirm in respect of Section 1(1)(b) the below data

Notes:

Some incidents were not designated to one specific hate incident type group, instead they involved multiple hate motivating factors. Such incidents have been allocated to the category: ‘Multiple hate incident types.’

The results include both crime and non crime hate incidents

Dates Period: 1st January 2016 to 31st December 2020

Please find below the crime statistics for the last 5 years in the below table:

Hate Incidents - January 2016 to December 2020

Year	Hate Incident Category	Number of hate incidents	Yearly hate incidents
2016	Multiple hate Incident types	44	2359
	Hate Incident - Age	1
	Hate Incident - Disability	238
	Hate Incident - Homophobic	222
	Hate Incident - Racial	1706
	Hate Incident - Religious	33
	Hate Incident - Religious - Buddhist	1
	Hate Incident - Religious - Christian	4
	Hate Incident - Religious - Hindu	1
	Hate Incident - Religious - Jewish	28
	Hate Incident - Religious - Muslim	27
	Hate Incident - Religious - No religion	2
	Hate Incident - Religious - Other	2
	Hate Incident - Religious - Sikh	1
	Hate Incident - Religious - Unknown	6
	Hate Incident - Transgender	43
2017	Multiple hate Incident types	47	2639
	Hate Incident - Age	2
	Hate Incident - Disability	317
	Hate Incident - Homophobic	282
	Hate Incident - Racial	1722
	Hate Incident - Religious	7
	Hate Incident - Religious - Christian	11
	Hate Incident - Religious - Hindu	1
	Hate Incident - Religious - Jewish	42
	Hate Incident - Religious - Muslim	101
	Hate Incident - Religious - No religion	8
	Hate Incident - Religious - Other	1
	Hate Incident - Religious - Sikh	1
	Hate Incident - Religious - Unknown	3
	Hate Incident - Transgender	94
2018	Multiple hate Incident types	74	3071
	Hate Incident - Age	3
	Hate Incident - Disability	381
	Hate Incident - Homophobic	342
	Hate Incident - Racial	1992
	Hate Incident - Religious - Christian	10
	Hate Incident - Religious - Hindu	1
	Hate Incident - Religious - Jewish	70
	Hate Incident - Religious - Muslim	79
	Hate Incident - Religious - No religion	1
	Hate Incident - Religious - Other	8
	Hate Incident - Religious - Sikh	2
	Hate Incident - Religious - Unknown	13
	Hate Incident - Transgender	95
2019	Multiple hate Incident types	87	3435
	Hate Incident - Age	1
	Hate Incident - Alternative Sub-culture	3
	Hate Incident - Disability	439
	Hate Incident - Homophobic	448
	Hate Incident - Racial	2166
	Hate Incident - Religious - Christian	4
	Hate Incident - Religious - Jewish	73
	Hate Incident - Religious - Muslim	79
	Hate Incident - Religious - No religion	1
	Hate Incident - Religious - Other	19
	Hate Incident - Religious - Sikh	3
	Hate Incident - Religious - Unknown	10
	Hate Incident - Transgender	102
2020	Multiple hate Incident types	92	3970
	Hate Incident - Age	7
	Hate Incident - Alternative Sub-culture	12
	Hate Incident - Disability	520
	Hate Incident - Homophobic	498
	Hate Incident - Racial	2602
	Hate Incident - Religious - Christian	7
	Hate Incident - Religious - Hindu	3
	Hate Incident - Religious - Jewish	57
	Hate Incident - Religious - Muslim	60
	Hate Incident - Religious - Other	9
	Hate Incident - Religious - Sikh	1
	Hate Incident - Religious - Unknown	10
	Hate Incident - Transgender	92
Total		15,474

Every effort is made to ensure that figures provided are accurate and complete, however Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not primarily for the production of statistical information. Please note although data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries the results are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system and could also be inaccurate as a result of free text entry fields. Care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting data.

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