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Hate Crime Reporting Community Survey
This project is made possible by the Ministry of the Solicitor General in the form of direct support from The Safer and Vital Communities Grant.
Introduction: This survey is completely anonymous and aims to capture community voice as it relates to hate incident reporting. What is a hate incident? Where do hate incidents occur? Why do some in the community report hate incidents while others do not? How can hate incident reporting be improved upon? This survey will take 5-10 minutes to complete.
Quantitative data gathering will provide answers to these questions directly from community members in order to display, digest, and demystify the reporting system in the four communities of Peel, Ottawa, York, and Toronto. This survey data will be translated into recommendations and ultimately actioned into training for police officers who respond to incidents of hate in order to better serve their communities.
Hate crimes refer to criminal incidents that are found to have been motivated by hatred toward an identifiable group. According to s318(4) of the Criminal Code of Canada such groups are distinguishable by race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, or on any other similar factor.
In other words, any criminal act has the potential to be a hate crime if the hate motivation can be proven. For the purpose of this survey a Hate crime - hate incident will be used interchangeably, and encompasses all forms of hate speech.