The chances of police or prosecutors taking action against hate crime offenders have plummeted over the last year, new figures show. Victims of hate crime now have only a one in four chance of seeing a perpetrator charged, cautioned or dealt with in some other way by the police – down from one in three in the previous year, data obtained by the
UK Hate Crimes See Rapid Rise, Hate Crime Prosecutions Sees Rapid Decline
The total numbers of reported hate crimes have soared by 20% over the past year (from 50,288 to 60,225), with 34 out of the 40 forces recording a rise in offences. But despite this increase, in most of these forces police and prosecutors took action in fewer cases last year than previously.
