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[Beefy]

The Home Office data on hate crimes was published today via an annual crime statistics report.

The report reveals that 7,194 hate crimes based on sexual orientation were recorded during the 2015-16 financial year, equating to 20 incidents every day.

1,844 homophobic hate crimes were recorded by London's police force, the Metropolitan Police, while 494 were recorded in Greater Manchester and 372 in the West Midlands.

British Transport Police, the national police service for the railways, reported 203 incidents – more than one homophobic incident every two days.

1428 transphobic hate crimes were reported across all police forces, remaining stable with the level of reporting in previous years.

Including all forms of hate crime, 62,518 incidents were recorded across 12 months, up 19% from the year ending 2016.

The Office of National Statistics explained that the increase may partly be due to ”greater awareness of hate crime and improved willingness of victims to come forward" alongside police officers improving hate crime reporting standards"for violence against the person and public order offences".

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/01/1...r&utm_content=TwitterN&utm_campaign=PNTwitter

Disgusting, I blame Brexit for a lot of it.

 

[Red Liquorice]

As someone who's had their car vandalised and threatened multiple times in the street, I'm amazed it's so low.

 

[Beefy]

As someone who's had their car vandalised and threatened multiple times in the street, I'm amazed it's so low.

Probably far higher as many don't report it.

 

[hidys]

That's really disturbing.

It makes wonder how this compares to other countries.