Radar Stop Disability Hate Crime Project

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Disability hate crimes and disability hate incidents have a profound affect on disabled people’s lives. In recent years we have heard about some of the more horrific disability hate crimes the worst of which have resulted in the death of the victim.

However, these newsworthy stories don’t capture the true nature of the problem. We know that around half the disabled people in the United Kingdom believe they have been the victim of disability hate crime and yet very few have been officially recorded by the Police and the Crown Prosecution Service.

So what can we do to increase the reporting and recording of disability hate crimes and incidents? Unless disabled people are willing to report the crimes and incidents there will always be a discrepancy between the number of crimes committed and the number recorded.

Radar has decided to take practical action and work with disabled people’s organisation and the authorities to improve the recording and reporting of disability hate crime.

We have set up a project to develop a national independent disability hate crime reporting centre; and as a result minimum standards for such reporting centres; and raise disabled peoples’ awareness of disability hate crime and incidents and how to report them.

We need your help to understand why disabled people don’t want to report disability hate crime and what would make them more confident to report that crime.

When answering the questions please bear in mind that we are not a third party reporting site and so cannot get involved in individual cases.

We are looking for general information.

To illustrate the standards for third party reporting centres we would like to use some quotes from the responses to this survey. Please could you indicate whether you are happy for any thing you say to be included in the standards? All quotes used will be anonymous.