Disability hate crime: full data set 2022
General note
Data in these tables from drawn from 44 of the 46 police forces approached. 43 of these responded wholly or partially to our FOI questions, and 1 had made some useable data available publicly which is reflected in the table.
These figures were gathered between the submission of the initial FOI requests on 6 May 2022 and the cut-off date for data to be reflected in our reporting, which was 19 August 2022.
Please note, Leonard Cheshire submitted two separate FOI requests. The first request covered Questions 1-6. The second covered Question 7. A third FOI request was submitted by United Response which covered questions 8 to 11.
3 police forces did not supply any data by 19 August 2022 and as such no data from these police forces is reflected.
Availability of data by question and police force
(1) Total disability hate crimes in 2020/21 and 2021/22, broken down by year [Columns B, C, D]: Data available for 39 of 46 police forces
(2) Total disability hate crimes in 2020/21 and 2021/22 committed by a repeat offender of disability hate crime(s), broken down by year [columns E, F, G]: Data available for 26 of 46 police forces
(3) Total disability hate crimes in 2020/21 and 2021/22 involving violence, broken down by year [Columns H, I, J]: Data available for 35 of 46 police forces
(4) Total disability hate crimes in 2020/21 and 2021/22 reported as taking place online [Columns K, L, M]: Data available for 36 of 46 police forces
(5) Total disability hate crimes in 2020/21 and 2021/22, which resulted in a CPS Referral [Columns N, O, P]: Data available for 29 of 46 police forces
(6) Total disability hate crimes in 2020/21 and 2021/22 reported as taking place online, which resulted in a CPS Referral [Columns Q, R, S]: Data available for 25 of 46 police forces
(7) Total disability hate crimes in 2020/21 and 2021/22 reported as having an intersectional element, ie. disability hate crimes additionally motivated by other protected characteristics such as race, gender, sexual orientation, religion [Columns T, U, V]: Data available for 39 of 46 police forces
Specific notes on data received from police forces
Avon and Somerset: A higher number of overall disability hate crime reports was supplied in response to an FOI request by United Response; the lower figure, supplied to Leonard Cheshire, is used here.
City of London Police: Data for numbers of disability hate crimes involving violence and involving repeat offenders were supplied, by not separated by financial year, and so are not used here.
Derbyshire Constabulary: A different number of disability hate crime reports was supplied to Leonard Cheshire’s subsequent FOI request concerning intersectional crimes. The figure provided in response to Leonard Cheshire’s first FOI request is used here.
Norfolk Constabulary: As above for Derbyshire.
Police Scotland: numbers for both ‘reported’ and ‘detected’ disability hate crimes were provided in response to Leonard Cheshire’s FOI request; the ‘detected’ numbers were used here. Numbers of reports involving repeat offenders were provided, but not separated by year, and so were excluded.
Police Service of Northern Ireland: numbers for both ‘reported’ and ‘detected’ disability hate crimes were provided as with Police Scotland; ‘detected’ numbers were used.