Education

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?