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The number of disability hate crime cases passed by police forces to prosecutors plummeted by a fifth last year, despite the number of allegations reported by disabled people rising by more than 40 per cent. Police forces across England and Wales […]
The government has already broken at least six promises it made in last summer’s much-criticised National Disability Strategy, responses by various departments this week have confirmed. Analysis of the strategy, published last July, shows that at least six of the actions […]
The decade-long battle for tougher laws on disability hate crime moved a step closer this week after the Law Commission announced a series of measures that would make it easier to secure convictions, if its recommendations are accepted by the government. […]
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) are calling for an urgent inquiry into the “systemic failure” by the Metropolitan police in how it responds to reports of disability hate crime. A new report says the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has been guilty of […]
A council has apologised to a disabled, older woman who has faced a decade-long ordeal of harassment, hate crime and abuse at the hands of her neighbours. The woman, who has long-term physical and mental health conditions, has noted hundreds of […]
“Alarming” official figures show how police forces are repeatedly letting disabled people down by failing to investigate disability hate crime properly, leading campaigners warned this week. They spoke out after Disability News Service (DNS) revealed how figures showed that prosecutions of […]
Prosecutions of disability hate crime have plunged by half in just two years, at the same time as offences recorded by police forces are rising sharply, according to “incredibly worrying” new figures. The key explanation for the fall appears to be […]
New Home Office figures that show a steep rise in recorded disability hate crime during the pandemic have sparked alarm among disabled campaigners, as well as fresh concerns over the contrasting performances of different police forces. The figures show an increase […]
Disabled campaigners have asked why a police officer who struck a black disabled teenager with his baton more than 30 times in just a minute – after she had flagged down his car to ask for help – is not facing […]
A new documentary on disability hate crime demonstrates the need for a “wholesale change in attitudes” towards disabled people, according to its disabled writer and director. The documentary, Targeted: The Truth about Disability Hate Crime, was broadcast last night (Wednesday) on […]