These are the latest stats of the Metropolitan Police Service’s hate crime figures to February 2014. A comparison of Islamophobic hate crimes from February 2013 to February 2014 in the respective boroughs, (and reported to the MET), show a 60% increase. This may well be due to the anti-Muslim backlash after the murder of Lee Rigby and the corresponding months where hate crime numbers slowly started to fall from the high peaks of June to September 2013.
|
Racist & religious crime |
Islamophobic crime |
Populations (2011) |
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|
12 months to |
12 months to |
12 months to |
12 months to |
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|
Feb 2014 |
Feb 2013 |
Change |
Feb 2014 |
Feb 2013 |
Change |
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|
Tower Hamlets |
410 |
371 |
+10.5% |
39 |
19 |
+105.3% |
254,096 |
|
Newham |
266 |
318 |
-16.4% |
13 |
19 |
-31.6% |
307,394 |
|
Greenwich |
347 |
314 |
+10.5% |
17 |
10 |
+70.0% |
254,557 |
|
Lewisham |
326 |
288 |
+13.2% |
15 |
14 |
+7.1% |
275,885 |
|
Hackney |
348 |
355 |
-2.0% |
16 |
8 |
+100.0% |
246,270 |
|
Islington |
427 |
489 |
-12.7% |
21 |
30 |
-30.0% |
206,125 |
|
Westminster |
551 |
616 |
-10.6% |
28 |
30 |
-6.7% |
219,396 |
|
Waltham Forest |
299 |
320 |
-6.6% |
17 |
25 |
-32.0% |
258,249 |
|
Southwark |
336 |
385 |
-12.7% |
22 |
5 |
+340.0% |
288,283 |
|
Camden |
365 |
513 |
-28.8% |
25 |
23 |
+8.7% |
220,338 |
|
Lambeth |
386 |
401 |
-3.7% |
35 |
13 |
+169.2% |
303,086 |
|
London total |
9199 |
9561 |
-3.8% |
547 |
342 |
+59.9% |
8,173,941 |