From today’s Irish News:
Professor Peter Shirlow, the Director at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies told The Irish News that the one form of hate is now being replaced with another. Sophisticated social media campaigns are causing an upsurge in race hate incidents as sectarianism is being ‘displaced’, an academic has said. The latest police figures show racist incidents and incidents of hate against religious minorities have reached record highs. At the same time, sectarian crimes in Northern Ireland have dropped dramatically.
The latest PSNI statistics show that there were 1,807 race-motivated hate incidents in the north last year – an increase of 454. Of these incidents, 1,188 were severe enough to be recorded as crimes – as increase from 839. However, the number of incidents of sectarianism recorded by the PSNI fell last year with just 910 recorded, a drop of 181. Of those sectarian incidents, 588 met the threshold to be recorded as a crime – the lowgest number since records began in 2005.
Just a reminder that at 3.4% Northern Ireland has the lowest population of non white people in the whole of the UK. London has a massive 46.2%, which is very few issues as far as I am aware.
| Country | White % | Non‑white % |
|---|---|---|
| England | 81% | 19% |
| Wales | 94% | 6.2% |
| Scotland | 93% | 7% |
| Northern Ireland | 96%+ | 3.4% |
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