Nearly half of New Zealand hate crimes downgraded on police database

Most personnel do not know how to correctly input offences, distorting the picture of hate crime-related offences

Hate crimes in New Zealand are being downgraded from what should be criminal offences because most police personnel do not know how to enter them into their database.

According to the police annual report (pdf) on data quality, 43% of hate crime complaints have been downgraded. These included racially motivated abuse, violence, threats or intimidation.

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