Why do victims of hate not report to police? This new study suggests that the barriers to report a hate crime vary depending on the perceived seriousness of the incident. For incidents like verbal abuse, what matters are mostly lack of knowledge about whether the incident can be reported and how to report it, as well as internalisation of the abuse (feeling hopeless and thinking that it’s normal to be abused). For incidents like physical aggression, people tend to know that they should report it, but they don’t because they fear retaliation, because they lack trust in statutory agencies, or because they have linguistic or physical barrier to access the reporting. For example, some victims can’t go to the police because they have a disability and their abuser might be a carer or a family member. Understanding how barriers are experienced by targets of hate can help developing programs to boost reporting.