Hate and Bias Motivated Crime

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Description:
This dataset contains hate and bias motivated incidents that were reported to the Ottawa Police Service. A Police-reported hate crime is “defined as a criminal violation against a person or property motivated by hate, based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression, or any other similar factor.”

In addition to police-reported incidents that involve a hate crime motivation, there are four specific offences listed as hate propaganda and hate crimes in the Criminal Code of Canada: advocating genocide; incitement of hatred in a public place that is likely to lead to a breach of the peace [public incitement of hatred]; willful promotion of hatred, all when directed against an identifiable group, and; mischief motivated by hate in relation to property primarily used for religious worship.

Depending on the level of evidence at the time of the incident, police can record the incident as either a “suspected” or “confirmed” hate-motivated crime. As more information is gathered, incidents are reviewed and verified and as a result, their status may be reclassified. Suspected hate crimes may include criminal incidents that cannot be confirmed as hate crimes, but for which there is sufficient evidence to suspect that they are motivated by hate, e.g., hate graffiti where no accused has been identified.

To ensure personal privacy, occurrence locations have been aggregated to the corresponding neighbourhoods and Statistics Canada census tract areas. The crime statistics published are accurate on the day that they were produced. Due to ongoing police investigations and internal data quality control efforts, this information is subject to change, including addition, deletion and reclassification of any and all data.

Date created: (date added to catalogue)
Update frequency: Annually
Accuracy: The Ottawa Police provides this information in good faith but provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability arising from any incorrect, incomplete or misleading information or its improper use.

Attributes: The attributes in this table represent fields in the Ottawa Police Records Management System (RMS). 
NOTE: In partnership with Statistics Canada and the Canadian Association of Chief’s of Police, hate crime type and motivation variables are in the process of being updated to better reflect the nature of the incident and modernize language to current standards. 

1. ID 

2. Year 

3. Reported Date

4. Reported Time 

5. Occurrence Date

6. Occurrence Time 

7. Occurrence Weekday 

8. Hate Crime Type:
  • Age
  • Sex 
  • Religion
  • Language
  • Disability
  • Race/ Ethnicity 
  • Sexual Orientation
  • Unknown Motivation

9. Primary Hate Crime Motivation:
  • Age
    • Children (0-14)
    • Youth (15-24)
    • Adults (25-64)
    • Seniors (65 years and over)
    • Unknown Age
  • Sex 
    • Male
    • Female 
    • Other Sex
    • Unknown Sex
  • Religion
    • Catholic
    • Jewish
    • Muslim
    • Other Religion
    • Unknown Religion
    • Language
  • English
    • French
    • Other Language 
    • Unknown Language
  • Disability
    • Mental
    • Physical
    • Other Disability
    • Unknown Disability 
  • Race / Ethnicity
    • Aboriginal
    • Arab/West Asian
    • Black
    • East and Southeast Asian
    • South Asian
    • White
    • Other Race/Ethnicity
    • Unknown Race/Ethnicity
  • Sexual-Orientation 
    • Bisexual
    • Heterosexual 
    • Homosexual (Lesbian or Gay)
    • Other Sexual Orientation
    • Unknown Sexual Orientation
  • Other Similar Factor (including motivations not otherwise stated above, such as profession or political beliefs)

10. Hate Crime Indicator
  • HC Confirmed (Confirmed hate crime incident)
  • HC Suspected (Suspected hate crime incident)

11. Primary UCR

12. Primary Offence

13. CCJS Clearance

Cleared (Solved):
  • Cleared by charge
  • Suicide of CSC
  • Death of CSC (not suicide)
  • Death of complainant or witness
  • Reason beyond control of department (policy)
  • Diplomatic immunity
  • CSC under 12 years of age
  • Committal of the CSC to a mental health facility
  • CSC outside Canada, cannot be returned
  • Victim/complainant requests that no further action is taken 
  • CSC involved in other incidents
  • CSC already sentenced
  • Departmental discretion
  • Diversionary Program
  • Incident cleared by a lesser structure
  • Incident cleared by another agency

Not Cleared – (Unsolved):
  • Insufficient evidence to proceed
  • Victim/complainant declines to proceed
  • Open (still under investigation)

14. ONS Neighbourhood  2019

15. Ottawa Police Sector 

16. Ottawa Police Division 

17. Census Tract Unique ID

18. Census Tract Name

Author: Ottawa Police Service
Author email: info@ottawapolice.ca
Maintainer Organization: Business Performance Unit

Source Repository:
Open Ottawa
Access:
Public
URL:
https://open.ottawa.ca/datasets/c9d6d4259b424750be12c8479765cc56
Publication date:
2021-07-26
Keywords:
Hate Crime, Hate and Bias Motivated Crime, and Ottawa Police

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APA Citation:
Hate and Bias Motivated Crime. (2021). [Data set]. Open Ottawa. https://open.ottawa.ca/datasets/c9d6d4259b424750be12c8479765cc56
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