Entirely as predicted, Police Scotland has been deluged with vexatious and politically-driven ‘hate crime’ reports, with one top official complaining “we cannot cope.”
Didn’t see this one coming.
Under the new legislation, anyone deemed to have been verbally ‘abusive’, in person or online, to a transgender person, including “insulting” them could be hit with a prison sentence of up to seven years.
That instantly led to a flood of bad faith reports, including from conservatives making a mockery of the system and from deranged left-wing activists trying to punish their ideological adversaries.
David Threadgold, Chairman of the Scottish Police Federation, said that the new legislation was being exploited to pursue personal and political vendettas.
“Police Scotland have gone public and said that on every occasion, reports of hate crime will be investigated,” Mr. Threadgold told the BBC. “That creates a situation where we simply cannot cope at the moment.”
“When you have vexatious complaints, people who look to weaponise this legislation or who make these complaints for personal gain or political point scoring, then that creates a problem for the police which can affect public satisfaction in my organisation,” he added.
As we previously highlighted, Police Scotland admitted that the new law could create “additional demand” and create a “resource implication” for police.
This followed a trial of a separate program set to be implemented across the country to stop investigating crimes like theft and criminal damage, which authorities acknowledge will help criminals.
As we reported yesterday, out of the more than 8000 reports police have received under the new ‘hate crime’ law, less than one per cent are leading to investigations.
Police Scotland are having to pay officers in their control room “hundreds of thousands” in overtime to deal with the onslaught of frivolous reports.
However, that’s still nearly 800 new investigations in a single week for a police force that already has stretched resources.
It’s been a complete disaster, but they can’t say nobody warned them.
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With the Marxists the issue is never the issue, so it is with the claimed hate crimes, which are just more fog to obscure the only issue for them, that being the revolution, which is to say seizing absolute power over everyone and everything.
Spot on Martina, you’re the only adult in the room.
Note to editors: 800 is 10% of 8000, not 1%
I thought America was the joke of the world, until I remembered Scotland and Ireland
You forgot England, France, Canada, Germany, Venezuela, Brazil, Ukraine, Norway, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, China, South Korea and Australia. 😉
Yet when a genuine hate crime is reported – a relative of a SNP MP actually posted a Star of David morphed with a swastika (yes, really) – Police Scotland don’t take any action because the person who reported it is not Jewish, like that makes a difference. So an actual antisemitic hate crime gets recorded as ‘non crime hate incident’. I suppose the new law only applies to specific religions and LGBTXYZ cults.
ALL crime is ‘hate crime’. Stop promoting special protections for Jews and crazy people.
First of all, there’s no such as “anti-Semitism”. It’s a made up nonsense word used by Jews to avoid having truthful conversations.
Second, there is no such thing as a “hate crime”, because there is no such thing as a “love crime”. If you can’t have “love crime”, then you can’t have “hate crime”.
And the LGBTQ agenda is ran by JEWS, genius.
There are 2 sexes according to the Christian Bible.
There are 2 sexes according to the Muslim Quran.
There are 8 sexes, according to the JEWISH TALMUD.
HARHARHAR!
Clown World!
Work hard now, Coppers!
April 8 will be the new “April Fool’s Day”
because ALL the Foreign Nazi idiocy will
be exposed today!
Nazi?!?
This is what the NAZIS were FIGHTING AGAINST.
If you believe that Europe should be for white Europeans…WHICH IT SHOULD…then by definition, YOU have a NAZI IDEOLOGY.
Perhaps you should learn the difference between a “Nazi” and a “Communist Jew”.