2,500 Hate Crimes Investigated By The Met.

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6401779/The-DOG-accused-hate-crime-fouling-outside-home-just-one-2-500-cases-probed.html

Due to some of the so called crimes, perhaps their time would be better spent focusing more on the stabbings and shootings?

[webbo3]

https://goo.gl/images/zgZVuW

[steg]

Are you saying they should stop investigating hate crimes?

[Togo]

//Further examples in a list of more than 2,500 alleged ‘hate incidents’ logged by the Metropolitan Police in 2015 and 2016 include:
An envelope that had been opened and resealed;
An accident involving a car that bore a Remembrance poppy;
A disputed line call in a tennis match;
A dead rat found in a garden;
And a man telling library staff he was campaigning for Brexit.//


Haha. Love thy burglar.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Are you saying they should stop investigating hate crimes?//

I rather think he is. And why would anybody want the police wasting their time doing it?

[steg]

///I rather think he is. And why would anybody want the police wasting their time doing it?///

Doing what? Investigating crimes?

[Spicerack]

Not just crimes, steglet.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/10/police-urge-public-report-insults-hurt-feelings-arent-crimes/

[steg]

But the op mentions ‘crimes’

[anotheoldgit]

steg

/// But the op mentions ‘crimes’ ///

No I didn't that is why I put 'so called crimes'.

[THECORBYLOON]

What about the thousands of hate crimes the paper hasn't singled out?

[woofgang]

Calls to the police have to be logged and given a number regardless of what happens afterwards, like calls to the other emergency services. the call log doesn't actually reflect what sction the police take.

[steg]

/// But the op mentions ‘crimes’ ///

No I didn't that is why I put 'so called crimes'.

Title of thread
///2,500 Hate Crimes Investigated By The Met.///

[THECORBYLOON]

You typed "some of the so called crimes." Do you think hate-crime is not a real crime?

[Spicerack]

Do you think non hate-crimes aren't real crimes?

[Togo]

I thought that stabbings and machete attacks were "crimes of passion".

[emmie]

dog fouling should be dealt with by local councils, would suggest those who phone up the police with trivia should be told in no uncertain terms that they don't deal with such so called crimes.
the police should be focusing as you say or more important real crimes, finding those who kill, maim our youngsters and others.

[THECORBYLOON]

Is it not similar to those who dial 999 to report clowns for selling balloons at high prices?

[anotheoldgit]

THECORBYLOON

/// Is it not similar to those who dial 999 to report clowns for selling balloons at high prices? ///

This is not about 'high inflation'.

[New Judge]

"Are you saying they should stop investigating hate crimes?"

Yes. Their definition of "hate crimes" has suffered seriously from "mission creep". It is not, as a general rule, criminal behaviour to upset somebody or hurt their feelings. So long as no physical harm is threatened or takes place people must get a grip. The police continually tell us that they must prioritise what they respond to to make the best use of their limited resources. If they prioritise the things such as Togo has cited then they are not carrying out that prioritisation exercise as well as they should.

[steg]

///. If they prioritise the things such as Togo has cited then they are not carrying out that prioritisation exercise as well as they should.///

I don’t think it says they are prioritised, it just says they were logged, which they have to do anyway

[hereIam]

Who invented the words 'hate crime' and when did they come into being ?? Completely taken over from real, serious crimes now and totally ludicrous, as this story shows. Get the police back to doing what they should be doing, solving knife crimes especially - I can but dream ! This country has lost the plot.