Lady Larunai said:
Thats generally how percentages work, you tried and failed to prove that it was more than one percent given the statistics you showed, thats really how the game works, you wanted to make it look much more rampant than it actually is when someone threw out a random number, turns out that number was accurate
It's how percentages work, yes. Congratulations. The percentage you've calculated is meaningless, since we're not discussing the percentage hate crimes make up of all crimes.
I should not have to point out how useless that metric would be; you may as well argue that since murder makes up only a small percentage of all crime, it's therefore not a significant problem. Incredible.
That is to say nothing of how you've overlooked the other links, of course. The first, you'll notice, records not only hate crime, but "racially or religiously motivated offences", which should give a much wider net when we're discussing racism as a whole. There, it records between 2,000 and 3,500
per month between April '13 and March '15. Don't be selective.