Brexit vote sees highest spike in religious and racial hate crimes ever recorded
Reports of racial and religious hate crime surged by 23 per cent the year after Brexit: an unparalleled surge after four years of a progressively upwards trend JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Image
The Independent reports that hate crimes involving racial and religious discrimination have soared at an unprecedented rate since the Brexit vote.
Police figures obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests show incidents surged by 23 per cent – from 40,741 to 49,921 – in the 11 months after the referendum, compared with the same period the previous year, marking an unparallelled rise.
Eleven of the 32 police forces in England and Wales that responded to the FOI requests saw reports of race and faith-based hate crimes increase by more than 40 per cent, with several regions including Gwent, Nottinghamshire, and Kent soaring by more than half in a year.
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