We don’t have extra resources to cope with hate crime reports, say police

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1. Underfunded. Underappreciated. And now adding more things to waste their already stretched resources and time.

   Genius

2. Lets have like voluteer hate patrols 😀 Antifa seems optimal for something like that 😀

3. What the people supporting this law don’t seem to realise is that it works both ways. If you have ever called a man “pale and male”, used the phrase “Karen”, or called someone a boomer, you will have to change the way you speak, or end up in prison. Your freedom to speak has been significantly reduced. Your language is now policed.

4. 1. Stretch resources you are priveleged to receive as thin as possible.
   2. Complain the English crowd in Westminster is victimising you to stir up hatred
   3. ??????
   4. Profit

5. I really wish there was a solution to this problem, without suggesting we overthrow the government and holding those in charge accountable for what they have turned this country into.

6. You do when the guys with the swastika is stood 100 feet away from you and you just want to finish your Pret latte.

7. It’s almost like the police should deal with proper crimes not this ‘its not a crime but it hurt my feelings’ bullshit.

   Did anyone join the police to police twitter? Fact is there already are laws that can be used on criminal speech. If it isn’t criminal then the police need to focus elsewhere.

   Feels like this law is like the NHS saying…inspite of the fact we csnt cope already we are now gonna provide the full suit of plastic surgery with no additional budget…and all u need to say is you’d like it.

8. [Top of this sub right now](https://ibb.co/9vqCNj8)

   It seems you do have the resources.

9. Good. This whole push to brand dissenting opinions as hate and a crime is an insidious and dangerous route to be going down. It will end up being used in a wider and wider way inevitably and selectively enforced. What a great way to stop anyone criticising if you just mass report them and make their life difficult.

10. Could you not argue it’s hateful when the police arrest you?

11. Having your feelings hurt should not be considered a crime…

12. How to be a policestate 101. George Orwell wrote a book specifically to make sure this decline of freespeech would not happen in Britain.

13. On one side you have people who are professionally offended, it’s baked in to their DNA to identify as a victim. In my view this is where a lot of the mentally unwell are. The sort to identify as a penguin and scream if anyone misgenders their penguiness

    In the middle where the vast majority of people are you have people just living their lives. Don’t care what you idea tify with if you are a good laugh we can be mates. All my gay and trans friends or colleagues are here, as am I.

    On the opposite side you have the bigots and alarmist. The gay will infect you kind of people. Half of which I am convinced are closeted because why else would you care so much what makes someone else happy?

    My prediction is the first group will abuse this to lash out at the middle group because they are already unstable. The 3rd group will use this to stir up fear in the middle group.

    Overall I see this as awful for the communities it triesto protect and will be used as a club to beat those in the middle just trying to live their lives.

    I really hope I am wrong, just have no faith in the SNP being able to thing 2 moves ahead

14. What? Religion is in there? If I read a religious text and decide, because of the teachings in that text that I hate the religion it belongs to can we arrest people promulgating these texts?

15. There’s no crime in our village… but there is the occasional sea mine. Luckily noone can understand our rural accents.

16. Seems to be a lot of people in this thread who are pro hate crime.

    You have to remember just a couple of months ago the Prime Minister for transphobic in the House of Commons in front of the mother of a murdered girl and within a week there was an attack on a trans person.

    Freedom of Speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

17. They don’t want to either.

    Hate is good for The Cops.

18. Ask extra resources to the Tories that wasted billions in PPE contracts to their friends during the COVID .

19. The police also don’t have the capacity to deal with other crimes, like assault, battery, or theft even when you offer them video evidence with the perpetrators face clearly visible and a home address for them too.

    What the police do have the capacity to deal with, with vicious speed, are crimes that result in fines. Anything that brings money in will be dealt with very aggressively, but anything that doesn’t gets put on the back burner until it simply has to be dealt with.

    Must be something to do with all the raping and noncing that goes on behind those uniforms.

20. But everyone has been claiming that they’ll pull all their resources into this and neglect all the real crime. Surely it can’t be that that isn’t true?

21. i wonder if they care if i got called a cis scumbag

22. Spend a decade demonising the police force and then act surprised when absolutely no cunt wants the job.

23. The date this legislation begins is very appropriate.

24. Didn’t have the resources to deal with the grooming gangs either.

25. My husband and I were assaulted and the police had no interest- until he mentioned that one of the attackers had also used a racist epithet against him. Then someone came round to investigate.

26. Got time to arrest old men for painting postboxes though right. That’s important yeh ? No space in prisons for rapists and pedos so let them go free but about to make being homeless illigal and will manage to find space for them ?

27. If they investigated every incident of someone claiming a hate crime that is all they would do, I have seen so many people who have no idea what a hate crime is.

    Those people talk like anyone who isn’t straight and White is completely immune to be shouted at, fought, argued with etc.

28. Ie the UK facing increased levels of bigotry and predudice it’s been normalised we can’t police everyone.

29. I think theres a difference between an unkind word or 2 and say.. burning down someones shop because of their religious beliefs, nowadays hate crime seems to be an umbrella term that they can get you with for absolutely trivial shit

30. Can we criminalise being too easily offended, rather than causing offence? It sounds like it’d stop timewasting and vastly improve the conversation.