Neighbour rows, drunken rants and online spats are still being logged as hate incidents, despite ministers pleading with the police to focus on serious wrongdoing instead.
Last year, the Home Office told the police to stop recording instances without proof of intentional prejudice.
However, some cases, such as business owners being subject to negative reviews online, are continuing to be logged as hate incidents.
Meanwhile, the detection rate for traditional crimes has fallen drastically, with data from the Home Office showing the number of burglaries resulting in a charge dipping to 3.9 per cent in 2023.
Petty incidents are still being logged as hate crimes, despite ministers pleading with the police to overhaul the policy
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Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman told the Daily Mail: “The police seem to have plenty of time to record these often-trivial incidents and yet anti-social behaviour, drugs and shoplifting is going unresolved.
“As home secretary I changed the guidance to raise the bar for when data should be recorded. It seems the police are still intent on subverting these rules. They are letting the public down.
“The police need to do better.”
Non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) do not count as crimes but can show up on employment-vetting checks.
In recent years, the College of Policing has been forced to review its guidance over non-crime hate incidents following a landmark ruling in December last year.
Former officer at Humberside Police Harry Miller won a Court of Appeal Challenge over guidance on "hate incidents" after claiming it unlawfully interferes with the right to freedom of expression.
Miller was confronted by colleagues over alleged transphobic tweets in January 2020. The force recorded the complaint as a non-crime hate incident.
The former officer challenged both Humberside Police's actions and the College of Policing's guidance at the High Court in 2020.
New figures released last month show that nearly half of burglaries across neighbourhoods in England and Wales remain unsolved.
Over the past three years, officers failed to solve burglaries in 48 per cent of neighbourhoods - areas consisting of 1,000 to 3,000 people.