We have discussed the curious policy of logging "non-crime hate
incidents" in the past. I finally got off my butt to find out more about
this policy.
Exhibit A - Wikipedia says this is NOT exclusively a British issue.
Other countries do the same thing, although usually with a slightly
different name. Wikipedia says that in the UK, the College of Policing mandated the recording of these incidents which raises the question of
who instructed THEM to create whole new categories of "misbehaviour"?
The article also lists what appear to be some pretty absurd incidents
that have been recorded as offended these rules.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-crime_hate_incident
Exhibit B - This video takes a look at "non-crime hate incidents" and explains some of the background for how they arose. The inherent
absurdity of the whole situation becomes apparent as the hosts discuss
the details, like the questioning of (journalist?) Allison Pearson for a tweet she'd made a year before. When she asked the police what the tweet said, they told her they couldn't tell her! (They also declined to
identify the complainant - who the College of Policing insists on
calling "the victim" - but that's a bit more reasonable since it's not
hard to imagine some kind of revenge being taken on an identified complainant.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS3gNJTQILY [16 minutes]
It was also interesting to learn that in the UK, non-crime hate
incidents can turn up if someone does a background check on you,
potentially jeopardizing your chance at a job (or maybe other things). I wonder if anyone has ever been denied a mortgage or even the ability to
rent a home or car because of what was found in a background check? The
key is that NO CRIME TOOK PLACE: all that's actually happened is that
someone complained about you and the police decided it met the test for
a non-crime hate incident.
On Aug 13, 2025 at 4:13:33 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
We have discussed the curious policy of logging "non-crime hate
incidents" in the past. I finally got off my butt to find out more about
this policy.
Exhibit A - Wikipedia says this is NOT exclusively a British issue.
Other countries do the same thing, although usually with a slightly
different name. Wikipedia says that in the UK, the College of Policing
mandated the recording of these incidents which raises the question of
who instructed THEM to create whole new categories of "misbehaviour"?
The article also lists what appear to be some pretty absurd incidents
that have been recorded as offended these rules.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-crime_hate_incident
Exhibit B - This video takes a look at "non-crime hate incidents" and
explains some of the background for how they arose. The inherent
absurdity of the whole situation becomes apparent as the hosts discuss
the details, like the questioning of (journalist?) Allison Pearson for a
tweet she'd made a year before. When she asked the police what the tweet
said, they told her they couldn't tell her! (They also declined to
identify the complainant - who the College of Policing insists on
calling "the victim" - but that's a bit more reasonable since it's not
hard to imagine some kind of revenge being taken on an identified
complainant.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS3gNJTQILY [16 minutes]
It was also interesting to learn that in the UK, non-crime hate
incidents can turn up if someone does a background check on you,
potentially jeopardizing your chance at a job (or maybe other things). I
wonder if anyone has ever been denied a mortgage or even the ability to
rent a home or car because of what was found in a background check? The
key is that NO CRIME TOOK PLACE: all that's actually happened is that
someone complained about you and the police decided it met the test for
a non-crime hate incident.
This is what the Left wants to come to America, too-- basically a social credit system where you can suffer real-world consequences for breaking social
norms, said norms being whatever the Left says they are, natch-- but they have
that pesky 1st Amendment standing in their way.
On 2025-08-13 7:18 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
On Aug 13, 2025 at 4:13:33 PM PDT, "Rhino"The Left must wish fervently that they had a time machine so that they
<no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
We have discussed the curious policy of logging "non-crime hate
incidents" in the past. I finally got off my butt to find out more about >>> this policy.
Exhibit A - Wikipedia says this is NOT exclusively a British issue.
Other countries do the same thing, although usually with a slightly
different name. Wikipedia says that in the UK, the College of Policing
mandated the recording of these incidents which raises the question of
who instructed THEM to create whole new categories of "misbehaviour"?
The article also lists what appear to be some pretty absurd incidents
that have been recorded as offended these rules.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-crime_hate_incident
Exhibit B - This video takes a look at "non-crime hate incidents" and
explains some of the background for how they arose. The inherent
absurdity of the whole situation becomes apparent as the hosts discuss
the details, like the questioning of (journalist?) Allison Pearson for a >>> tweet she'd made a year before. When she asked the police what the tweet >>> said, they told her they couldn't tell her! (They also declined to
identify the complainant - who the College of Policing insists on
calling "the victim" - but that's a bit more reasonable since it's not
hard to imagine some kind of revenge being taken on an identified
complainant.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS3gNJTQILY [16 minutes]
It was also interesting to learn that in the UK, non-crime hate
incidents can turn up if someone does a background check on you,
potentially jeopardizing your chance at a job (or maybe other things). I >>> wonder if anyone has ever been denied a mortgage or even the ability to
rent a home or car because of what was found in a background check? The
key is that NO CRIME TOOK PLACE: all that's actually happened is that
someone complained about you and the police decided it met the test for
a non-crime hate incident.
This is what the Left wants to come to America, too-- basically a social
credit system where you can suffer real-world consequences for
breaking social
norms, said norms being whatever the Left says they are, natch-- but
they have
that pesky 1st Amendment standing in their way.
could go back and persuade the Founding Fathers that what they REALLY
needed was "non-crime hate incident" reporting, not this free speech nonsense....
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