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Non-crime hate incidents – introduced by the College of Policing in 2014 – are both a censorious nightmare and a national embarrassment. What started life, supposedly, as a means to keep tabs on hateful behaviour before it escalated into actual crime has long been an Orwellian mess, in which tens of thousands of people have had their names logged purely because someone, somewhere, took offence to something they said. In 2016, then home secretary Amber Rudd even had one recorded against her name, because an Oxford academic took umbrage with a speech she gave about immigration.
Non-crime hate incidents – introduced by the College of Policing in 2014 – are both a censorious nightmare and a national embarrassment. What started life, supposedly, as a means to keep tabs on hateful behaviour before it escalated into actual crime has long been an Orwellian mess, in which tens of thousands of people have had their names logged purely because someone, somewhere, took offence to something they said. In 2016, then home secretary Amber Rudd even had one recorded against her name, because an Oxford academic took umbrage with a speech she gave about immigration.