Crime & Disorder & Drugs Audit 2004 - Hate Crime

Broadland Crime and Disorderand Drugs Audit 2004Hate Crime1.1 Hate crime1.1.1 Racist incidentsThe Norfolk Constabulary Racist Incidents Database records racist incidents in the Norfolkarea. The definition of a racist incident is adopted from Recommendation 12 of theMacpherson Report 1999 on the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry:A racist incident is any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person.This would include any incident reported to the police as racist in any form includingthrough third party reports from other agencies. These incidents will include crimes andnon-crimes - some of which will not become a CAD as they are reported a long time afterthe incident time.Figures are available for the 3 CDRP years 2001-2, 2002-3 and 2003-4; the Broadlandfigures are shown in Table 47 and Fig. 53.Racist Incidents - Count Percent change year-on-year2001-2 92002-3 21 + 133.313 - 38.12003-4Table 1 Numbers of racist incidents in Broadland 2001-4 and percentage change year-on-year[Source: NC3]25212015 13910502001-2 2002-3 2003-4YearFig. 1 Numbers of racist incidents in Broadland 2001-4[Source: NC3]CDRP Analyst, Eastern, April 2005 2CountBetween 2001-2 and 2003-4, there has been an overall increase in racist incidents inBroadland of 44.4%. Due to the small numbers involved, however, a definite trend shouldnot be inferred.Each racist incident is assigned to one of three ‘monitoring categories’. The count ofincidents ...