This is the second article in a series on hate crime in the UK. Read the first article, “Making Victim Reporting Accessible,” here.
The 1,744 disability hate crimes reported to police in the England and Wales from 2011-12 were just a drop in the ocean, with many disabled people experiencing harassment, bullying and violence on a daily basis and never reporting it.
Disability hate crime campaigner Stephen Brookes told Not In Our Town that only 3 percent of hate crimes targeting disabled people end up in hate crime statististics. This is supported by a recent...
