Annex A - Hate crime and the EU Referendum
Figure A2: Indexed trends in the number of racially or religiously aggravated offences and their
non-aggravated equivalents1 recorded by the police, April 2014 to August 2016
Indexed trend, April 2014=100
250
200
150
100
Non-aggravated offences
Aggravated offences
50
0
Source: Police Recorded Crime, Home Office
1. See Table 1 for list of offences covered.
The Home Office Data Hub contains information on the exact day that an offence is recorded.22 Figure
A3 shows racially or religiously aggravated offences recorded by the police by day of recording in May
to August 2016 for 31 forces23 that supplied data to the Home Office Data Hub – therefore covering
the period of the EU Referendum. This analysis shows a clear increase following the referendum
result. The number of racially or religiously aggravated offences then falls during August, with the
number of offences at the end of August at a similar level seen prior to the referendum.
22
Figures may include offences that took place before the date of recording. It is possible they were reported as a
result of the increased media attention on hate crime around the time of the EU referendum.
23
Avon and Somerset, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cleveland, Devon and Cornwall, Derbyshire,
Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester, Gwent, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Humberside, Lancashire, Lincolnshire,
Merseyside, Metropolitan Police, Northumbria, North Wales, North Yorkshire, South Wales, South Yorkshire,
Staffordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Thames Valley, Warwickshire , West Mercia, West Midlands, West Yorkshire and
Wiltshire.
19