Why Are the Police Investigating “Non-crime”?
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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 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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