Policing ‘non-crime hate incidents’ isn’t about preventing hate – it’s about enforcing woke orthodoxy and silencing dissent, says Toby in the Telegraph. Here’s an except:
NCHIs are a form of “pre-crime”, with the idea being that if you put the frighteners on someone guilty of saying something “hateful”, but which isn’t against the law, you deter them from taking the next step, which would be to commit a hate crime.
That was the rationale provided by Paul Giannasi, a retired police officer and now the Hate Crime Policy Lead at the National Police Chiefs’ Council, in a witness statement he submitted on behalf of the College of Policing when it was being sued by Harry Miller. Miller, an ex-cop, sued both Humberside Police and the arm’s-length body after an NCHI was recorded against him in 2019.
“Failure to address non-crime hate incidents is likely to lead to their increase, and ultimately increase the risk of serious violence and societal damage,” said Giannasi.
In his witness statement, Giannasi said this supposition – that NCHIs, if not “addressed”, would inevitably lead to more and more serious crimes – was based on the work of Gordon Allport, an American social psychologist, who wrote a book in 1954 called The Nature of Prejudice. According to Allport, there’s a pyramid of hate – a five-stage model – with disparaging remarks about “out groups” at the bottom and what he called “extermination” at the top. Failure to tackle this nexus of hatred when “stage one” rears its ugly head can lead to genocide….
[But] the reason Essex Police dispatched two officers to interview a middle-aged journalist about a year-old tweet on a Sunday morning wasn’t because they genuinely believed she might embark on a crime spree if her “hateful” behaviour wasn’t nipped in the bud, or that she might incite racial hatred. It’s because those responsible for devising national police policy – people such as Paul Giannasi – believe that if you openly flout the new woke public morality you should be punished.Say something that upsets or offends a member of a minority group – or one of their self-appointed guardians – and you might get a visit from the police.
That’s why you’re more likely to have an NCHI logged against your name if you’re Right-of-centre than Left-of-centre. To date, an ex-Conservative home secretary, a former vice-chairman of the Conservative Party and the ex-deputy leader of the Scottish Conservatives have all had NCHIs recorded against them, but I don’t know of a Labour MP who’s suffered the same fate.
Those hailing from the Left who have been investigated, such as Ian Austin and Julie Bindel, have generally diverged from progressive orthodoxy.
This goes to show NCHIs are a way to keep people in line and persecute heretics, not prevent crime.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Toby has written about the disgusting practice of recording ‘non-crime hate incidents’ against children in Spiked.
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