Any crime can be a hate crime if there's an element of racism, sexism and the like. It's still a crime that needs to be investigated... there's no such thing as a hate crime that isn't also a crime. Verbal abuse can also be a crime so shouting racist, sexist, homophobic stuff is a crime *and* a hate crime and needs to be investigated. All reported crime needs to be investigated.Yambo wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 10:19 amdern wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 10:03 am
I addressed what he said. That is that the police would look in to a potential incitement... that is a crime. They don't just look in to hurtful comments. They haven't looked in to what he said as far as I'm aware (although they did in the case Jo Brand, posted earlier as some kind of justification for what JC said). So therefore they are recording crime and not just anything that hurt's someone's feelings.
Are you both missing my point... why is it ok just to be bloody unpleasant?
The police have, and may still be investigating and recording non-crime supposed hate incidents. If there is no crime, why are the police wasting police time, which is iirc, itself a crime?
Tell me why it's ok for JC to be so bloody unpleasant please and why you're defending him. We know he can, tell me why you think it's fine for him to do so.