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https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-british-police-are-deeply-hostile-to-free-speech/
Can the police be charged with wasting their own time? If so, those officers should be written up pronto. They conceded Jones had committed no crime, but wanted to ‘advise’ her about the complaint anyway. Why they didn’t just dismiss the complaint – which Jones believes came from Sedgwick himself – out of hand is anyone’s guess.
I know we have become accustomed to the police showing up at someone’s home because they have posted something somewhere that someone else found offensive. But we really shouldn’t. From the thousands of arrests each year over ‘grossly offensive’ tweets to the Orwellian harvesting of ‘non-crime hate incidents’, the police are fast becoming the armed wing of offence culture.
https://archive.ph/iXlRS
Can the police be charged with wasting their own time? If so, those officers should be written up pronto. They conceded Jones had committed no crime, but wanted to ‘advise’ her about the complaint anyway. Why they didn’t just dismiss the complaint – which Jones believes came from Sedgwick himself – out of hand is anyone’s guess.
I know we have become accustomed to the police showing up at someone’s home because they have posted something somewhere that someone else found offensive. But we really shouldn’t. From the thousands of arrests each year over ‘grossly offensive’ tweets to the Orwellian harvesting of ‘non-crime hate incidents’, the police are fast becoming the armed wing of offence culture.
https://archive.ph/iXlRS