Progress at last on disability hate crime, but prosecution figures still fail to reflect daily experience of hostility

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**Police forces and prosecutors are both finally working to increase the number of disability hate crime prosecutions in England and Wales, as the number of court cases remains stubbornly low, despite a long-awaited rise.** Disability News Service (DNS) has been reporting for eight years on how levels of prosecutions of disability hate crime have plummeted from their peak a decade ago, and how pol…