Arriving early for a meeting at the new equalities and human rights commission this week I had a moment to download the new report launched by Scope, Disability Now magazine and the UK Disabled People's Council (UKDPC) on Disability hate crime, 'Getting Away with Murder'. As I was going to a meeting of the National Advisory Group on Learning Disability and Ethnicity I searched for what the report said about the experiences of black disabled people, finding nothing I broadened the search to ethnic. This produced some results, but only to somewhat dismiss the issue along the lines of if these things happened to black people they would be recognised as hate crimes.

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