- Reports of abuse in professional game up by 42%
- Racist abuse up 53%, abuse based on sexual orientation by 95%
Kick It Out has warned that a “shocking” increase in reports of racist and homophobic abuse in professional football last season is just the tip of the iceberg – and says it wants clubs and the police to share far more data so it can better understand and tackle the growing threat.
The organisation’s chair, Sanjay Bhandari, told the Guardian that Kick It Out did not know how much of abuse comes from children in their bedrooms or organised groups, and said that by aggregating as much data as possible, including from law enforcement, they would be able to get “better insight and intelligence and come up with more targeted response strategies to each category of offender”.
Written by Sean Ingle
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