Police Scotland “can’t cope” with the deluge of hate crime reports made under the SNP’s new law, frontline officers have warned. The Telegraph has more.
David Threadgold, Chairman of the Scottish Police Federation, also claimed that officers remained confused about who should be charged because of inadequate training.
Around 8,000 hate crime reports were made in the first week of the legislation coming into force, with Mr. Threadgold warning that it was being exploited to fuel personal and political vendettas.
“Police Scotland have gone public and said that on every occasion, reports of hate crime will be investigated,” Mr. Threadgold told the BBC. “That creates a situation where we simply cannot cope at the moment.
“Officers have been brought back in to do overtime shifts, and the management of that is simply unsustainable.
“When you have vexatious complaints, people who look to weaponise this legislation or who make these complaints for personal gain or political point scoring, then that creates a problem for the police which can affect public satisfaction in my organisation.
“Now, the First Minister in Scotland can talk about his confidence, and Police Scotland’s ability to deal with vexatious complaints as he has done, but what we have never seen before is the scale of the complaints are coming in around one piece of legislation.”
Claims also emerged on Monday that police had dismissed a complaint about a relative of an SNP politician, who allegedly posted an anti-Semitic image online because the complainant was not Jewish.
The new legislation, which was passed by MSPs in 2021 but only came into force this month, makes it an offence to “stir up hatred” against protected groups such as transgender people, the disabled and the elderly.
Ahead of enforcement, the SNP Government and Police Scotland launched a campaign urging the public to report all instances of “hate” but have been taken aback by the volume of complaints.
Police officers received just two hours of online training which Mr. Threadgold said had not been adequate to equip them to make difficult judgements around complex issues such as how to balance freedom of speech.
SNP politicians also repeatedly failed to clarify to what extent “misgendering” a trans person, meaning referring to them as a member of their biological sex, would be a crime under the new law.
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I’ve noticed that every time there’s a rise in
casespositive tests, suddenly it’s okay to compare with Sweden, even if there is no correlation with healthcare. The lockdowners really do like to cherry pick when countries and can be compared.I think you will find there is quite a lot of cherry picking on both sides of the debate – see above.
The imbalance and lack of sense and evidence is heavily in one direction.
Most of the claims of government/Covmaniacs are demonstrably wrong; those of the rationalists have been essentially correct.
We have a year of test data now.
Which bit?
So easy to spot 77 these days. Pathetic.
No. I don’t. Lockdown has been thoroughly tested & evaluated. It has no effect whatsoever on transmission.
You don’t need to look now at cases in one place vs another to inadequately ask the same question again, a question which has been addressed already.
I can’t help noticing that it is OK to compare the experience of US states with European countries when assessing the effect of lockdowns but when it comes to whether Covid is seasonal the US experience is irrelevant.
COVID is seasonal in the USA. It differs across states because their latitude is different. They have similar divergence with flu.
Fundamentally there was no change at all in the speed of infections when compulsion was removed in US states. That shows compulsion has no effect
We have just over one complete year. During that time some states peaked in the spring, some in the summer, most states peaked again January. How is that evidence for seasonality? To put it another way – if that is seasonal what would non-seasonal look like?
Seasonal viruses peak at different times in different places. We’ve known that with flu for generations
That’s completely different from removal of mask compulsion which if they did anything would cause a near immediate alteration in the rate of change.
It didn’t. QED
Many of the states remained in lockdown, which could well have delayed when the virus peaked.
The overall numbers, and trajectory of the virus were mainly unaffected by lockdowns or mask mandates.
LMS2 and Lucan Grey
So – what would non-seasonal look like?
HIV, hepatitis, ebola – all these viruses are non seasonal, as far as I can tell.
Respiratory viruses tend to be seasonal, and have different peak seasons:
https://www.medscape.com/answers/302460-86798/what-are-the-seasonal-patterns-of-rhinoviral-coronaviral-enteroviral-and-adenoviral-upper-respiratory-tract-infections-uris
It’s getting lonely being in the 77th,
How soon can I move to Texas?
Yep: two things one can rely on – death and Texas!
Remember the Alamo.
Much more likely to be shot than to catch C19, you’d have thought; look at the stats.
It’s way past time that the perennially petrified start to bear the cost rather than those with a more mature approach to risk.
Does anyone know how the march went in London today? I’ve only been able to find a small mention that said hundreds attended a kill the bill and antivaccination march. I’m hoping it was more than hundreds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB6fNMZTQmk – Really good job supressing the content, it’s harder to find that a case of the coof in Texas
Thank you
The BBC is reliably silent on it, not even tucked away anywhere…
GB News’ll get the next one if it’s after June 21st once the plebs realise they have been lied to.
Do yo actually think people will show any realisation?
I hope I’m wrong … but …..
Looking at many pictures and a live stream I would have said hundreds of thousands.
It was a massive protest. Also a massive media blockout.
Not 100’s but some say over 100,000
~copied photo from the comment section in the top article~
https://mobile.twitter.com/ClimateAudit/status/1397985541350735874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1397988043710152709%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2021%2F05%2Fnumber_of_covid_cases_in_delhi_crashes_after_mass_distribution_of_ivermectin.html
“Cases in Delhi, where Ivermectin was begun on April 20, dropped from 28,395 to just 2,260 on May 22. This represents an astounding 92% drop. Likewise, cases in Uttar Pradesh have dropped from 37,944 on April 24 to 5,964 on May 22 – a decline of 84%. ”
“according to online data, Delhi cases have gone from 24K daily at end of April to 1491 yesterday. Whether it’s due to ivermectin or just down phase of Gompertz curve, it’s huge and gratifying good news that’s mostly unreported in doomcasting media.”
Help, folks! I’ve lost the link to Mabel Cow’s Reddit site.
No, ok now found it again.
Urgent warning about your NHS data
In case you haven’t heard, the Notional Hell Service is giving itself permission to share your confidential data with whomever it pleases. In point of fact, it’s already doing so:
“Regulation 3 of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 (COPI) also allow confidential patient information to be used and shared appropriately and lawfully in a public health emergency. The Secretary of State has issued legal notices under COPI (COPI Notices) requiring NHS Digital, NHS England and Improvement, arm’s-length bodies (such as Public Health England), local authorities, NHS trusts, clinical commissioning groups and GP practices to share confidential patient information to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. Any information used or shared during the COVID-19 outbreak will be limited to the period of the outbreak unless there is another legal basis to use confidential patient information.”
Note the last clause In particular.
You have until 23 June to opt out of the latest scheme. Look for ‘Type 1 opt out.’ (Sorry, can’t paste links at the moment.)
https://medconfidential.org/how-to-opt-out/
Thanks for reminder. Also this link for children – a few more steps https://medconfidential.org/2021/children/
Do it now!
BBC et al editors meeting..
Ok so to wrap up.. to continue to get government money and Gates’ money.. we don’t mention marches for freedom.. we don’t mention Sweden and we don’t mention Texas or Florida.. or Belarus..
All in agreement say Aye?
Aye. Aye. Ayeeee.. AYE.. aye… clop.
They’re still acting as though lockdown was either proven to slow epidemic spreading or at least that it remains an open question.
It’s neither. It’s definitively not effective. Dozens of peer reviewed journal articles say so.
We even know why not. Transmission almost never occurs unless the source is symptomatic.
Those who are the best sources of infection are most likely the most ill….and least likely to be out & about. Sources of infection were & remain heavily deselected for in the ambulatory population & so community transmission in places affected by lockdown was close to zero.
No wonder lockdown simply destroys the economy & crushes civil society.
Meanwhile, transmission continues in institutions (provided there is any incidence, which there may no longer be,..but you can’t trust the testing, either).
So, discussion about lockdown is wholly misplaced.
Well done, the open states of the USA.
We live in the State of Georgia and, aside from some social distancing being practiced, there really have been few lockdown type restrictions since the end of May 2020. The biggest difference over the last few months has been the gradual return of pre-Covid habits: hand shakes, hugs, sharing a golf cart, dinner parties, cocktail parties, no masks anywhere, etc. Indoor dining is back to 100% although many/most restaurants still offer outside dining (more seats, same overhead). And our Covid numbers have fallen to levels not seen since late March 2020.
But we also understand the problem UK health authorities have: a relative lack of medical facilities. We understand that the UK average for ICU beds is 7.2 beds per 100,000 with London as a concentration area with 21.0 beds per 100,000. Our local county has a population of 290,000 and about 310 ICU beds so our local ratio is 106.9 beds per 100,000. That is a big difference in spare capacity.
With so little capacity to care for the sick, health authorities have to do everything possible to keep people from seeking treatment.
“If they die, that’s life. As long as they die at home, it is not our fault.”