Police in the U.K., who I’m assuming have run out of stabbings to look into, are now investigating a nine-year-old boy for calling his classmate a “retard.”
That’s according to The Times, which did an investigative dive of their own into some of the “non-hate crime incidents” U.K. cops had recorded in the interest of “public safety.” (And yes - this is the same country currently jailing people for making "offensive" social media posts.)
This newest insanity is all thanks to the U.K.’s recently implemented Non-Hate Crime Incidents law, which, according to government guidance, mandates that police investigate reported “incidents” that are “clearly motivated by intentional hostility” or that risk “causing significant harm or a criminal offense.” The law has led to more than 13,000 “hate” incidents being recorded by the U.K.’s less-than-50 police departments between June 2023 and June 2024 alone.
Those heinous crimes apparently included this kid who used the evil r-word, as well as two high school girls who apparently committed the atrocity of saying another student “smelled like fish.” Those incidents can show up on enhanced criminal record checks, meaning kids who are investigated for NHCIs could carry that report on their name well into adulthood, making it harder to get into school or land a job.
Now, government officials are scrambling to better define a “non-hate crime incident” in a world in which anything can mean anything to anyone who might be offended by it, saying that police should only investigate reported NHCIs when there is a clear risk that the “incident” could lead to an actual crime being committed.
How exactly you determine or regulate that, I have no idea - though I’m sure the social justice braintrusts are on it.
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