{"id":25333,"date":"2020-12-03T09:54:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T00:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/03\/nearly-half-of-new-zealand-hate-crimes-downgraded-on-police-database"},"modified":"2020-12-03T09:54:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T00:54:54","slug":"nearly-half-of-new-zealand-hate-crimes-downgraded-on-police-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25333","title":{"rendered":"Nearly half of New Zealand hate crimes downgraded on police database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most personnel do not know how to correctly input offences, distorting the picture of hate crime-related offences<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.police.govt.nz\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/annual-report-police-data-quality-2020.pdf\">annual report<\/a> (pdf) on data quality, 43% of hate crime complaints have been downgraded. These included racially motivated abuse, violence, threats or intimidation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/03\/nearly-half-of-new-zealand-hate-crimes-downgraded-on-police-database\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most personnel do not know how to correctly input offences, distorting the picture of hate crime-related offencesHate crimes in New Zealand are being downgraded from what should be criminal offences because most police personnel do not know how to ente&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25334,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25333\/revisions\/25334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}