What exactly is a non-crime hate incident? | The Daily T Podcast

The police are investigating The Telegraph’s Allison Pearson for a social media post, despite everyday crime going largely unsolved. Essex Police chose the morning of Remembrance Sunday to visit Pearson and inform her they were investigating a year-old social media post under Section 17 of the Public Order Act 1986 relating to material “likely or intended to cause racial hatred”.

Kamal and Tim Stanley ask why our police forces seem perfectly capable of following up on remarks made in an online environment, whilst everyday crimes like burglaries and sexual offences go largely unsolved.

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[tedthesailor]

It's seems utterly bizarre that most of those in Parliament think this is in any way reasonable. We are repeatedly electing a House of Derangement...

[bubbles]

If it’s non-crime why are the police involved?

[julieholdcroftbetty]

If it's a non crime incident, it's not a crime ....people should be charged with wasting police time!

[peterlangridge]

Is it small wonder, that when your shop gets robbed, or your home broken into, the Ploice cant be arsed to turn out, let alone conduct a proper investigation whilst they're playing silly beggars with utter nonsense like this?

[andrewwhite]

Same happened in Scotland and the reason why the police turned up on a Sunday is it happens to be the quietist day for the police.
Basically if they will not supply any details I would have thought she was in her rights to tell them to leave her property.

[JanetteEdwards-gljr]

History is a great teacher. These are indeed dangerous times!

[spikefunakoshi]

If it is a 'non-crime' incident, then it is no business of the police.
Tell them to go away and multiply.

[bubbles]

How come Lammy and the other serving cabinet members who tweeted abuse at Trump aren’t in jail?

[kevincronin]

First big never open the door to the police. open ur window and tell them to FO

[mrmyorky]

This is happening now to many ordinary decent people who are not criminals. What are our legal rights when the police turn up at our door with this disgraceful and unfounded accusation and how should we respond?

[wordwordful]

The human condition has been criminalised.

[JanetLong-xt]

This happened to Katie Hopkins and got no one on her side ...so what is going on in our country....

[jonswap]

The job of the police is to fight crime. It is not the job of the police force to enforce thought control or any other activity that does not constitute a crime. If the Labour government wants to enforce its Orwellian system of thought control, then I suggest it sets up a department of thought control and mind crimes, and get them to do this instead of wasting the police's time with this.

[tdsdave]

I don't get why we are having this explained to us now, this police behavior has been on my radar for years. Is this because mainstream news was not interested in this until one of their own got caught up in it. 1/4 of million such non-crime records already generated and now we are concerned ?

[AliceBowie]

This has been going on for at least a decade in the UK. Dankula got sent to prison for teaching his dog a trick. The police obviously don't care about real crime, only what people say online.

[justme-ttpv]

Non-crime hate incident. Biggest contradiction if ever there was one.

[WestonMike]

A victim is only a victim when proved in a court case. Otherwise only a complainant.

[Ralpho]

If it’s not a crime why waste police resources plenty of unsolved crime going on

[davidevans]

When something is described as a non crime the police don't usually pursue it. So why does it take two officers to be look into this non crime.

[iainrae]

I am 'offended' with police wasting time on ' non crime ' issues.
Will this be investigated as a 'non crime' hate crime ?