“The police work hard to stop hate crime, but I believe officers could do more gaining trust from communities like ours to tackle the problem, come knock on our door speak to our members."
Source/Credit: Express and Star
By Alex Ross | February 18, 2018
Only a quarter of emergency police call-outs to hate crime incidents resulted in a person being charged or summoned to court, new figures have revealed.
And it is not clear how many of the charges were directly linked to the hate crime offence reported.
West Midlands Police received 999 calls reporting hate crime incidents in the Black Country on 324 occasions last year, categorising 94 of them for immediate response.
Yet in almost a fifth of the cases – 20 – the victim did not show or withdrew support for police action.
Only in 23 of the emergency call-outs was someone arrested or given court summons.
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