The Metropolitan Police increased the number of non-crime hate incidents it recorded after it announced it was dropping them. Surprise surprise…
After the Graham Linehan Heathrow farce the Met told the media it was putting a stop to non-crime hate incident investigations, saying “the commissioner has been clear he doesn’t believe officers should be policing toxic culture war debates, with current laws and rules on inciting violence online leaving them in an impossible position.” All noise…
Data obtained by Guido’s FOI Unit shows that from the 1st of August to the date of the announcement on 20 October the Met was recording an average of 50 non-crime hate incidents per week, as the below chart displays:
In the week after the announcement recordings actually went up at an average of 58 in seven days:
The Met claims that continuing to record the ‘incidents’ is useful because they are “valuable pieces of intelligence to establish potential patterns of behaviour or criminality” – which makes no sense seeing as they are not criminal offences and are barely investigated anyway. The College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs’ Council has formally recommended they are scrapped entirely…
Labour could scrap non-crime hate incidents properly if it wanted to. Or it could just pretend it is doing it as usual…
UPDATE: A Met spokesman said:
“We have been clear we will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents. However, we will record an incident if it’s reported to us. This will ensure we have valuable intelligence to establish any patterns of behaviour or criminality. The number of incidents reported to us are obviously out of our control and not an indication of increased police action.” Why keep recording them then…
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“It is Conservative policy that we should have elections, but I’m not a dictator. You know Nigel Farage, no one else makes any decisions, he’s a one-man band.”
