Hate Crime

How Education can Save Lives: The Rise of Disability Hate Crime Reports in West Yorkshire (a response)

My podcast about the rise of Disability Hate Crime in West Yorkshire has been positively received. I posted it to my personal Facebook page, as well as publishing it on the MHM website. The aim of the podcast was to raise awareness of the high figures of hate crime reports in West Yorkshire. My call to action asked for listeners to ask themselves how much they know about hate crimes, and if to assess if they would benefit from an education in spotting the signs of hate crime and how to intervene as a member of the public. 

How Education can Save Lives: The Rise of Disability Hate Crime Reports in West Yorkshire

A podcast that discusses the rise in reports of disability hate crime.

West Yorkshire saw the most hate crimes reported against someone with a disability between October 2017 and October 2018. 536 reports of hate crime is a shocking number, but is it necessarily a negative figure?

Could it be that West Yorkshire have provided an education to their population, both disabled and non-disabled, about what the signs of hate crime are and how they can intervene and report it?