The profile of victims in hate-related incidents showed little change in 2023, according to police in Hamilton, Ont. The number of reports, however, rose 26 per cent.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.The annual report, to be presented at a board meeting on Thursday, says members of the Black, Jewish and LGBTQ2 communities are still the most targeted in hate-related service calls.
About 15.2 per cent of the incidents considered crimes in 2023 were “cleared” by police through either an arrest, diversion, a victim declining to proceed with charges or another circumstance.The data says “community outreach efforts” encouraging victims to report, and improved training for officers likely contributed to the rise in cases year to year.
The report states the hate crimes and incidents in the study are the only ones the service knows about and that changes in numbers may reflect a rise in reporting due to “community outreach efforts or heightened awareness.” Meanwhile, the Jewish community received the bulk of the hate incidents targeting religion with the total coming to 44, up slightly from the 42 reported in 2022.There were 15 reported cases by members of the Muslim community in 2023, a marked increase from the five police dealt with in 2022.
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