Police Still Persist With the Hate Crime Agenda

Police still persist with the hate crime agenda

BRUCE NEWSOME

WHAT did I tell you? In December, Britain’s College of Policing revealed to the Telegraph that it would recommend to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood that ‘non-crime hate incidents’ (NCHIs) should no longer be recorded (12 years after the same organisation had recommended they should be recorded).

In response I warned that police would continue to record NCHIs while claiming they are just collecting intelligence.

The College of Policing itself left a loophole for recording NCHIs. It recommended that officers should adopt a ‘common sense’ approach, recording only the worst cases for the purposes of intelligence.

As I warned in December, this is just a reduction in scale, with no clarification of what is justifiably recordable. And the College of Policing did not clarify what free speech really means, or what should be done about police abuses of powers.

However virtuous your motivations to target only hate with criminal implications, such as inciting terrorism, in practice policing hate always leads to two-tier policing. Inevitably the people with power persecute their critics and opponents.

For instance, transgender trolls tweeted hate of those who oppose men in female-only spaces, while former police officer Harry Miller was wrongly recorded as the author of NCHIs for satirical tweets about the nonsense that gender can be reduced to choice.

In 2020, Darren Grimes interviewed historian David Starkey, who used controversial language (‘damn blacks’) when discussing slavery. Metropolitan Police officers investigated Grimes for stirring racial hatred, interviewed him under caution, then dropped it – but recorded an NCHI, which could stop him working with children or vulnerable adults.

In the fiscal year 2024-2025, police recorded thousands of NCHIs involving children, including a nine-year-old calling a classmate a ‘retard’; and secondary schoolgirls saying a pupil ‘smelled like fish’. Adult examples include a neighbour playing Bob Marley loudly, chalk drawings on pavement perceived as targeting immigrants, and English flags on lampposts.

These ridiculous cases, after years of exposure, after years of rising rates of most crimes, after years of declining public trust, eventually (belatedly) provoked the College of Policing into a U-turn.

Now, in February, my prediction from December has been proved right by the Metropolitan Police, the leading force in the practising of NCHI dogma.

In September 2025, Graham Linehan (creator of the comedies Father Ted and The IT Crowd) arrived at Heathrow Airport from the US to be met by five armed officers. He was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence against transgenders through three satirical tweets dating from April. He was bailed, initially on condition that he would not access X. In October, the Crown Prosecution Service decided on no further action.

The Linehan case contributed to the Metropolitan Police’s announcement that it would stop investigating NCHIs (which in turn provoked the College of Policing into its U-turn).

However, some Met officers have continued to tell people that they are subjects of criminal investigation for hate, downgraded to NCHIs.

Now Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has urged Londoners to report all hate incidents even when they don’t meet the legal threshold for a crime. That’s the same Commissioner who announced in October that his force would no longer investigate ‘non-crime hate incidents.’

Sir Mark said officers still need to hear of NCHIs to track community tensions. That’s the intelligence justification of which I warned in December.

But Sir Mark goes further, re-justifying the recording of NCHIs, as defined by the police themselves: ‘If someone feels threatened because of their race or religion they should call us,’ he said. ‘We will work out whether it’s a crime. In either event we need to know about it.’

And in another signal of two-tier policing, Sir Mark made this appeal at the launch of the British Muslim Trust (BMT), a government-funded organisation established to monitor only anti-Muslim hate. Its nominal mission against hate is cover for Islamo-centrism at best, Islamism at worst.

The BMT’s chief executive Akeela Ahmed has called for censorship of reporting on Muslim issues, including in collaboration with the Muslim Council of Britain, which is so unrepresentative and extreme that the government has (belatedly) stopped consulting it.

Ahmed has worked with Qari Asim, who was dismissed as an adviser by the last government as a threat to free speech, in part because Asim brought Pakistani imams to speak in support of the death penalty for blasphemy. (Despite these connections, Ahmed is still a member of the government’s Islamophobia Working Group.)

The BMT has received support from the Aziz Foundation, a charity founded by billionaire landlord Asif Aziz. The Foundation funds the Centre for Media Monitoring, established by the Muslim Council of Britain. Its own literature admits its aim to ‘take control of the narrative’; and the Policy Exchange found it was ‘repeatedly inaccurate, unfair or biased to an extent that would be unacceptable in any professional news outlet’. The Foundation also campaigns against the Prevent counter-terrorism programme, claiming that it ‘actively harms Muslims’.

In appearance, at least, the Met has re-justified NCHIs in order to further two-tier policing and appeal to immoderate Islamists in particular.

A quango’s recommendation against NCHIs is clearly inadequate to restore justice and freedom to the United Kingdom.Statutory and structural reforms are needed.

Consider the solutions I proposed after Linehan’s arrest:

• Dismiss the current police ‘system leaders’;
• Break up the Metropolitan Police;
• Repeal the Racial & Religious Hatred Act (2006) and the Online Safety Act (which came into force in July);
• Dismiss partisan judges;
• Make judges accountable for their jurisprudence.

The government is not considering any of these proposals.

Reducing the scale of non-crime records, and recording them under some term other than NCHIs, are insufficient guarantees against illiberal authoritarianism.

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