A report was released today on mental health victims and their disproportionate targeting by criminals.

The visualisation below shows how they are targeted more for every type of crime and that some crimes are much more likely than others. The most likely crime by some distance is theft from household, which is 15 times more likely to happen to someone with a mental health issue than someone without. Threats of violence and assault are both close to five times more likely to occur to people with mental health issues than those without. Despite this increased likelihood, police are ill-equipped to deal with the specific issues that crime victims with mental health problems face and qualitative interviews show that a large number of victims faced fear and prejudice from the police themselves.