Police Investigate Nine Year-Old for “Hate Incident” of Playground Name-Calling
A nine year-old who called a classmate a name and two secondary school girls who said another pupil smelt “like fish” are among thousands of people being investigated by police for non-crime hate incidents. The Times has more.
Police forces recorded incidents against a nine year-old who called a primary school classmate a “retard” and against two secondary school girls who said that another pupil smelt “like fish”.
They were among several cases of children being logged as having committed non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs), according to freedom of information requests to police forces.
Government guidance says that NCHIs are supposed to be recorded for incidents “clearly motivated by intentional hostility” and where there is a real risk of escalation “causing significant harm or a criminal offence”. Classroom incidents that do not amount to crimes are not supposed to be recorded, and neither are incidents involving journalists expressing lawfully held views with no hostility.
However, the Times has found evidence of widespread confusion among police over what types of incident should be recorded.No. 10 said that the Home Office would review its guidance to protect “the fundamental right to free speech” after the journalist Allison Pearson claimed she was being investigated over an NCHI. Essex police say this is inaccurate and have defended their handling of the case.
However, data collected by the Times shows the recording of NCHIs is widespread. More than 13,200 hate incidents were recorded in the 12 months to June this year, according to statistics from 45 of Britain’s 48 police forces.
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Wake me up, I’m dreaming. Wake me up! I’m in an extended nightmare where real crime goes unsolved while PLAYGROUND NAME CALLING gets the attention of the police!!!!!
What kind of nihilist derangement leads “the authorities” to go down this particular (and lunatic) road? It’s proof that our society is being undermined, and that we’re heading for destruction. This is proof, final and complete, that we’re ruled not by incompetents but by the deliberately evil. And the Tories enabled this social poison.
They’re going after Dave Atherton on Twitter too because he shared a meme of a Palestine flag with some derogatory words about a certain proscribed terrorist organization. Elon Musk has declared Britain is a police state. He’s not wrong; ”Journo Allison Pearson was visited by the police for an X post, I attended an i/v with the Met Police. I think with me they wanted to prise out to see if I was some kind of extreme right-wing nutter. We both have substantial followings, she has 172k & I 241k. Allison has the edge of having a national newspaper column. There is an extreme Islamic problem in the UK, both anti-Semitic & anti-Britain, 97 out of 100 terrorist murders were committed by Islamists. Instead of dealing with the primary problem, they deal with the secondary problem, the reaction. They want centre-right commentators to be quiet & not scare the horses. X head Elon Musk has refused to bow the knee to the British govt, banning it would be a very bad look. So the police obsession with closing down right-wing commentators, it’s far more easy. If they dealt with the primary problem, they know it would lead to major civil… Read more »
You are spot on – it is nihilist derangement.
Brendan O’Neill has compared the situation in the UK to that of the Soviet Union, i.e. you can be investigated for “wrong speech” and he’s totally correct.
But the police will prioritize this nonsense over solving burglaries. UK police are useless, pathetic, corrupt traitors. Here’s our Toby speaking on Talk TV. I should think the FSU will be getting a huge boost to their memberships the way things are going, or they ought to, anyway;
”If the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, goes ahead with a plan to force police officers to record more ‘non-crime hate incidents’ (NCHIs), the Free Speech Union (FSU) will take legal action — WATCH FSU Head Toby Young discuss the issues on Talk TV below.
As an organisation, we’re not prepared to stand by while the government takes us back to the bad old days when Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights was ignored, and the subjective perception of ‘hatred’ was enough to have your name and address logged in a police database.”
https://x.com/SpeechUnion/status/1856744280142090755
I’ve shared this elsewhere but when you have a police chief declaring hate speech is as bad as child abuse or rape then that does give an inkling as to just how utterly warped their view on actual serious crime is and the effects on victims, hence my absolute disdain for these complete treacherous goons knows no bounds. How do you think his comments went down with rape victims or the parents of kids that have been abused? Disgraceful clown!
”The Chief Constable of Essex Police has listed hate speech as one of the largest threats to the community.
In a 2021 document, Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington suggested hate crime was on par with rape, child abuse, knife crime, domestic abuse and child sexual exploitation.”
https://www.gbnews.com/news/essex-police-chief-hate-speech-rape-knife-crime-child-abuse-biggest-threats
Excerpt:
The Conservative-controlled Essex County Council, with contribution from the police, also commissioned a report this year into hate crime in the area.
A challenge outlined by the report was that the current political landscape has led to growing hostility towards certain communities.
It stated this was: “Fuelled by a rise in more mainstream Right-wing politics (the ‘radical Right’) and resulting in an increase in ‘freedom‑restricting harassment’.”
This is essentially political name-calling: It’s asserted that large parts of the general public are becoming ever more far righter and that such people are basically all criminals. Ie, you’re either card-carrying Labour supporter or the police should really pay closer attention to you at best haven’t committed any serious crimes yet.
There’s something very much wrong with a country where the police openly engages in political partisanship and sizable part of the socially dominant political and cultural establishment believes that that’s exactly how things not only should but actually even must be.
someone’s been taking to much acid and woke up in a bad trip.
Or we’re forced to participate in someone’s bad trip as spear carriers.
As written elsewhere; Once upon a time the Police protected the public, now the public need protection from the Police. FSU membership is massively increasing, coincidence?
John Major said of Sir Richard Body MP
“When I hear the name Body I hear the sound of white coats flapping.”
Was that a hate statement
David Cameron [2006] refused to apologise for describing the UK Independence party as “fruitcakes”, “loonies” and “closet racists”.
What about that. Where can I report it to the police. I was very offended and upset.
I recall Farage on Have I Got News For You enduring a special round of ‘Fruitcake, Loony or Closet Racist?’. He explained that he really didn’t want to call any of his party doners any of these terms.
Am I correct in thinking that the age of criminal responsibility in the UK is 10? Presumably the daft idea of a non crime hate incident is that it was something that might have been a crime but was then downgraded. But this cannot be the case for a 9 year old as they are too young to have committed the potential crime that was then downgraded to a non crime.
I remember at school having sessions when we tried to invent the most derogatory names we could think off, I can still recall some of them but I would not dare write them now or I would be locked up in the tower! The mantra in my childhood was ‘sticks and stone may hurt your bones but words will never harm you’,It is all part of growing up. If we start criminalising childhood it is no wonder that the birth rate is falling, who would want to put a child through this nightmare scenario.
This has become some kind of back to front world where nothing makes sense.
I am literally staggered that any sentient human being thinks this is a good idea, mind you we are talking about the f’kin’ plod so perhaps we shouldn’t be too surprised.
If you’re the type of low-life that can only get a boner when watching little babies being raped and abused ( which is basically on a par with hate speech so not too bad, according to Essex police ) then you’re golden and will never see the inside of a prison cell, seemingly. So if sending somebody down for sharing tweets and memes is supposed to act as a deterrent, according to the judges sending patriots to jail, where’s the deterrent in letting paedos off Scott free?
”A TRAINEE teacher who shared videos of newborn babies being raped walked free from court yesterday.
Jacob Chouffot, 26, distributed and received more than 1,000 of the most serious Category A films and photos.
But he dodged a custodial sentence as a judge said he was not a direct danger to the public.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/31724864/trainee-teacher-videos-newborn-babies-raped-court/
Bring on the next flood or the asteroid. Surely we’re at that stage by now?
He is indeed a direct danger to the public – the young victims of the images he had have been abused and severely damaged.
Does the judge think that these are not real children being abused for the entertainment and sick pleasure of this monster.
Cloud cuckoo land justice degrading society for perverted pleasure.
Who reported this to the police? Was it someone from the school or the parents of the child called a retard or just some other shit-stirrer? What if the child identified as a retard? Would that make it OK?
If it was a representative of the school they need punishment – schools are supposed to deal with this sort of thing. If it was some sort of unauthorised school teacher or self-styled whistle-blower they need firing. If it was another pupil, I wish them luck in their future at the school. If it was the parents of the child called ‘retard’ then they’ll almost certainly need to find another school for their child.
The child who did the name calling is either going to be incredibly upset about this or swaggering around thinking he’s more-or-less untouchable. My guess is the latter.
A crap outcome all around.
‘Police Investigate Nine Year-Old for “Hate Incident” of Playground Name-Calling’
In other news an SAS unit helicopter fast-roped into a pre-school playgroup and double-tapped a toddler who had been observed making anti-social screaming noises and flinging their strawberry yoghurt around in a reckless manner…
The whole concept of NCHIs should be abolished and all “Hate Crime” legislation repealed. Unfortunately the present Government is more likely to strengthen such concepts.
Madness
” However, the Times has found evidence of widespread confusion among police over what types of incident should be recorded.”
If confused or doubtful just leave well alone – you’re probably wrong.
Insanity is taking over this poor country. Pray it will survive.