Back to SearchAs part of the 2023-2026 Proceeds of Crime Grant from the Government of Ontario, the Peterborough Police Service has created an online visual tool to help bring awareness and understanding about police-reported hate/bias data to the public.
The Anti-Hate Initiative has been a three-year grant project with several commitments including training provided to sworn and civilian members of the Peterborough Police Service, creation of a dedicated webpage on the Peterborough Police Service website, learning about public perception of hate/bias through workshops and questions in the 2025 Community Perception Survey and it concluded with a city-wide public education and awareness campaign between January and March 2026.
The online visual tool is an exploration of police-reported hate/bias crimes and incidents between 2021-2025. It is designed to highlight the data and what we can learn from it.
The tool is broken down into the following sections:
- About the Map
- Is it a Hate Crime or Hate Incident?
- About the Data
- What happens when an incident is reported to police?
- What’s been happening?
- Geographic trends over time
- Breaking down the data
- How often charges are laid
- 2025 Community Perception Survey
- What do I do if I am a victim of, or witness to, a Hate Crime or Hate Incident?
- How to report a crime
We encourage residents to look at the data through the following link: Online Visual Tool
“I believe sharing this police-reported data with the public is important to understanding what is happening in our community. As a Police Service we know that incidents involving hate/bias are often underreported. I hope that if the public is aware of how the justice system can address hate crime/hate bias and that reporting such incidents is important, more people will feel comfortable coming forward.” Stuart Betts, Chief of Police, Peterborough Police Service.
Thank you to our community partners for their support: the New Canadians Centre, Community Race Relations Committee of Peterborough, Peterborough Youth Services, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Office at the City of Peterborough.
The tool can also be found through the Hate Has No Place Here Public Education and Awareness Campaign webpage.
What is a story map?
A story map is an online visual tool that tells a story as you scroll through the different sections of information. We deliberately chose to make the story map a page one journey that viewers scroll through versus a series of pages that take the viewers away from the main page through a series of ‘clicks’.
In this case, the information is breaking down the data of police-reported hate/bias incidents and crime over a five-year period.
What is police-reported data?
This is a data set based on incidents that were reported to the Peterborough Police Service during a certain time frame. In this case, the data is representative of the years 2021-2025. The Peterborough Police Service is aware that these types of incidents are underreported; however, if we don’t know about it, we cannot report about it.
Sandra Dueck
Manager, Strategic Communication Services
Peterborough Police Service
876@peterboroughpolice.ca
705-876-1122 x217
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