Why Are the Police Investigating “Non-crime”?

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:29.4	What business do our police forces have in investigating non-crime?
0:35.0	Is this not the precise opposite of their purpose?
0:38.0	It would be the equivalent of a doctor who limits his attention to the vigorous and the healthy.
0:42.0	And yet this is precisely how our law enforcement offers. limits his attention to the vigorous and the healthy.
0:42.7	And yet this is precisely how our law enforcement officers
0:45.3	are spending much of their valuable time.
0:47.3	Between 2014 and 2019, almost 120,000 non-crime hate incidents were recorded by forces in England and Wales.
0:56.2	Estimates now suggest that since then the figure will have risen to well over a quarter of
1:00.4	a million.
1:01.4	In Scotland the situation has arguably got even worse,
1:04.3	what with the introduction of the SMP's new hate crime law. Police Scotland is
1:08.6	already stretched to the limit, which is why it recently announced its
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