{"id":539,"date":"2020-05-05T16:57:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T16:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/?p=539"},"modified":"2020-06-08T16:03:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T16:03:41","slug":"reporting-covid-19-hate-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/2020\/05\/05\/reporting-covid-19-hate-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting Covid-19 Hate Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is now 7 weeks since lockdown started in the UK due to Covid-19, and hate crime has become more prevalent.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/coronavirus-hate-crimes-against-chinese-people-soar-in-uk-during-covid-19-crisis-11979388?fbclid=IwAR3IhrEwa-vfH737N3JFu2Q_pXiErfhA7NVMyLUBdHmVJf7g2tpuelZ2I3M\">Sky News have reported<\/a> that more than 260 offences against Chinese people have been recorded in the first 3 months of 2020. This is more than 3 times the number of cases reported in the previous 2 years (375 hate crimes throughout the whole of 2019, and 360 offences in 2018). These cases have been due to Covid-19 hate crime including assaults, robberies, harassment and criminal damage against Chinese people.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police have produced videos to give information that is relevant to all communities about their rights to be protected from hate crime linked to Covid-19. You can view these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.report-it.org.uk\/covid_19_and_racis_hate_crime\">h<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.report-it.org.uk\/covid_19_and_racis_hate_crime\">ere<\/a> in Mandarin, Cantonese, Thai, Japanese, Somali, Indonesian and Vietnamese. The English version is below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/411081234\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>To report a hate crime related to Covid-19 you can do so safely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.report-it.org.uk\/your_police_force\">online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is now 7 weeks since lockdown started in the UK due to Covid-19, and hate crime has become more prevalent.\u00a0 Sky News have reported that more than 260 offences against Chinese people have been recorded in the first 3 months of 2020. This is more than 3 times the number of cases reported in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11951,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racial-hate-crime","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paruxn-8H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}