Civitas

Dear Richard Hate crime statistics Thank you for raising your concerns about the hate crime official statistics for England and Wales. You asked us to investigate the quality of the police recorded crime data and the Crime Survey for England and Wales estimates, and to consider the recommendations in your recent Civitas report, How hate […]

Dear Sir/Madam, I would like to complain about the statistics used in this briefing on hate crime. There are two problems. It is claimed: ‘In 2019/20, there were 105,090 hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales, excluding Greater Manchester police, an increase of 8 per cent compared with 2018/19 (97,446 offences).’ The problem […]