Intra and inter ethnic crime for 2022 and 2023

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.24.035841

I note you seek access to the following information:

Clarification -
Accused data is perfectly fine, that is more what I am after, additionally if that is easier for you to conduct.

ORIGINAL REQUEST
Intra and inter-ethnic crime for 2022 and 2023 (by officer identified ethnicity) for specific crime

These crimes are:

Homicide
Violence with Injury
Rape
Robbery of Personal Property
Domestic Burglary
Theft from Person

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1. Inter and intra ethnic crime in London by officer identified ethnicity (4+1 categories) for 2022 and 2023
   An example of what I mean by intra and inter-ethnic crime (Link Removed)
2. Inter and intra ethnic crime in London by officer identified ethnicity (4+1 categories) for suspect/accused and victim for 2022 and 2023 by borough

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full. Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

Please see below spreadsheet titled ‘FINAL - FOI_24_035841 - Inter and Intra ethnic Crime

Kindly ensure that the attached data is read in conjunction with the notes page of the spreadsheet. The data provided is likely to be inaccurate for the following reasons which are included on the notes page:

The Police Defined Ethnic Identity category was used rather than the Self defined Ethnic Identity category. This is because the Self defined Ethnic Identity category is a self-reporting category. This means that not all victims or accused choose to give information regarding their self-defined ethnic identity, leaving the field blank.

This is not a reflection of ALL crime data as some is "state" victim rather than person victim

Totals for more recent years will be lower as they are more likely to still be being investigated and therefore many not have Accused screens created yet.

The data shows the total number of offences with victims of each ethnicity group and then of those, the ethnic breakdown of the accused. The total number of offences for each ethnic grouping by Accused will add up to slightly more than the total for the total number of offences according to victim ethnicity as it is possible that some cases have more than one Accused who have different ethnicities. For the same reason, the victim by ethnicity data for each year cannot be added to get a total for that year as some crimes will feature in more than one data set if there were multiple victims with different ethnicities.

Some of the requested offences are subsets of others; figures from different tables should not be combined.

In light of the above, the data disclosed from this FOI request is not an accurate reflection of the ethnicity of the victims of these offences AND MUST NOT BE PRESENTED AS SUCH.