Police are recording more non-crime hate incidents than last year despite a crackdown on the practice, according to official data. The Telegraph has more.
Suella Braverman, the former Home Secretary, last year told police they should only log reports of hate incidents that were below the criminal threshold if there was a serious risk of harm and not just because someone was offended.
The changes, introduced through statutory guidance in June last year, followed “trivial” cases such as a man who ended up with a police file for whistling the theme tune to Bob the Builder at his neighbour, who perceived racial hatred.
However, police figures for 30 of the 43 forces in England and Wales, obtained through Freedom of Information laws, showed that the number of non-crime hate incidents increased by 0.4% from 11,642 in the year to June 2023 to 11,690 in the year to 2024.
The data, provided to the Free Speech Union, revealed some forces recorded big increases including Staffordshire (140%), North Yorkshire (65%), Gwent (63%), Suffolk (35%) and North Wales (33%).
Toby Young, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, said the figures suggested the “message had not got through” to some forces that the recording of such incidents represented an interference with people’s free speech.
He suggested the rise could undermine moves by Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, to toughen the hate crime laws to tackle anti-Semitic and Islamophobic abuse.
She is considering reversing Ms Braverman’s decision to downgrade the monitoring of non-crime hate incidents in relation to antisemitism and Islamophobia so they can be logged by police.
Mr. Young said it would weaken the argument that the abuse had risen because of a drop-off in recording non-crime hate incidents. Alternatively, the rise could mean police were already logging such incidents following the Hamas terror attack on October 7th, he added.
Responding to the figures, Ms. Braverman said she had introduced the guidance to “protect free speech and get the police to focus on the priorities of the British people”.
She added: “Yet some police forces ignored the guidance and have continued to use vital resources to excessively monitor free speech on social media.”
“As the Chief Inspector recently said, the police need to focus on getting the basics right. I agree. They need to stop wasting time and energy on virtue-signalling and start focusing on locking up thieves and violent criminals.”
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The Home Secretary does not decide what the police do. That is decided by a quango called the College of Policing and a trade guild called the Association of Chief Police Officers, or names something like that. Both have been fully taken over by the wokery and Blairism of the past 25 years.
Freemasons might have something to do with senior officers. They have been established for a long time.
I reckon the coppers were better when the freemasons were in charge, at least they were patriots.
I see Enoch Burke has been arrested again in Ireland because he refuses to conform and turn his back on his principles. Much admiration for him because he’s defiant in refusing to be bullied, threatened or to bow down to the wretched gender ideology which is polluting our societies and poses a serious threat to our kids. What a hero this man is, who just happens to expose the unethical and corrupt state of the law at the same time. Ireland’s police and judiciary, much like the UK, are a total disgrace, to put it mildly;
”BREAKING: Teacher Enoch Burke arrested at Wilson’s Hospital School after refusing to endorse and affirm transgender ideology.
Judge Barry O’Donnell, who made almost €400,000 from 2016-2018 representing TUSLA as a barrister, ordered his arrest.
TUSLA is the Irish State ‘Child Protection’ agency, an organisation saturated with LGBT ideology, urging staff recently to learn about cross-dressers and drag performers, and making acceptance of LGBT and transgender ideology a condition for fostering children.
What a mockery to expect Enoch Burke, a Christian teacher, to sit before this man and expect justice.”
https://x.com/EnochBurke/status/1830622162362745233
They would probably make it mandatory to have the jab before adoption. That is what seemed to happen to a mate who was in the adoption process. But I remember his partner was a Carer is that might have played a part. I remember him saying that he had to show that he had the jab — and me being outraged that he found entertaining more than anything.
I suppose Killing 80 year olds in the park is the new scumping or knock a door run is it?
All seems to be accepted as normal these days!
BUT, don’t you dare tweet about it!
https://www.gbnews.com/news/five-children-arrested-dog-walker-park-leicestershire
Are there any Non, Non-crime Hate incidents we can ‘commit’?
Or is it non-crime -hate- non-crimes?
It’s getting confusing.
I can image a principled officer saying, ‘get back to me when you have an actual crime to report because we are rather busy’. and then getting the sack by the Woke paramilitary wing of the Police.
Isn’t theft under £100 now legal by default. Just give the crime number and forget about it!
I remember being astonished to read a book called “The Strange Theory of Light and Matter” by Richard Feynman. —-I discovered that light can be in two places at once.
But I never knew Police Officers had this same remarkable quality. They can be apprehending someone who just wrote a naughty sentence on social media while at the same time arresting someone for carrying a knife or for actually having just plunged a knife into someone. —-Quite remarkable. ——But actually Police Officers are not light beams at all are they? And since they cannot be in two places at once perhaps it is best to be in just the once place and forget all about the naughty sentences.
You can’t use a word like ‘hate’ in this way because it doesn’t take a genius to see that to configure this word thus is essentially an attempt to pretenend to do one thing whilst actually doing another. And there is no place for black magic in our society. Kennedy talked about the perniciousness of secrecy and cited Athens where it was a punishable crime to shy away from difficult controversies. And hatred isn’t an anti-spritual state if properly applied. Perhaps hate the sin but not the sinner is the best formulation.
Peak Orwell Non-Crimes Are Crimes