“Bob the Builder, can we fix it? Yes, we can!” What a great TV show that was. Sure it was multiracial, and it had a female worker, if not boss, Wendy, but she was fine. They were all good mates, and it made heroes out of working class people. But here in the silly old UK, merely singing this theme song can make you a racist! I suppose the singer was white, and the recipient, coloured. What else?
“A man has been landed with a police record for ‘racial hatred’ for whistling the Bob The Builder theme tune at his neighbour.
Officers in Bedfordshire recorded the incident as a non-crime hate incident, which will remain on file for six years and could be disclosed to prospective employers.
Few other details about the ‘crime’ are known, but it is just one of the bizarre cases unearthed by an investigation into the controversial practice of recording ‘hate incidents’ even if no law has been broken.
Others include a swimming teacher in West Yorkshire given a police record after a child’s mother claimed her son had been allowed to bang his head against the side of the pool ‘due to his ethnicity’, and a gay man who alleged he had been ripped off by a drug dealer because of his sexuality.
In Norfolk, a Portuguese national said an unknown person had deliberately left a burger bun on their driveway ‘due to their ethnicity’.
Under the Hate Crime Operational Guidelines, adopted in 2014, forces are required to record any actions deemed to be motivated by an element of hate, even if there is no evidence to prove them.
In total, 10,840 non-crime hate incidents were logged last year, bringing the total in the past five years to 120,000 – but Freedom of Information requests sent to 43 police forces in England and Wales failed to identify a single crime that had been solved as a result.
Campaigners have called for the ‘Orwellian’ system to be scrapped, claiming a police record could jeopardise a person’s career even if they were not charged with a crime.
‘The police have completely lost the plot,’ said Harry Miller, a former police officer from pressure group Fair Cop.
‘How the hell can whistling Bob The Builder at someone land you with a criminal record?’
Rupert Matthews, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, said: ‘The police have got more than enough to do and if it is not a crime then we cannot be putting resources into it. The public is right to ask why are police investigating things that are not crimes.’
The College of Policing said non-crime hate incidents show up only on an enhanced criminal records check if it is relevant to the particular job and is approved by a chief constable.
David Tucker, its faculty head, added: ‘Chief officers must also consider allowing someone the opportunity to reply before information is disclosed, and it should not be disclosed if it is trivial, simply demonstrates poor behaviour or relates merely to an individual’s lifestyle.’”
Police recording so-called hate incidents which are not crimes is an infringement of civil liberties and should be challenged in the courts, although I expect our courts are as bad as the US, and will find that no liberties now exist. Anyway, recall that our woke Covid police, so quick off the mark to nail any sign of white racism, led go the rapists of maybe one million British children because of political correctness. The Left fact checkers dispute the one millions figure, but do not offer one of their own, and do not deny that the police knew of the rapes, but did nothing for years until publicly forced to, because the girls were white, and the rapists, non-white. So much for the rule of law.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31691061
https://www.citti.net/upto-1-million-british-children-victims-of-muslim-rape-gangs-cbn-news-report/
https://www.opindia.com/2020/07/muslim-grooming-gangs-uk-victim-narrate-details-rape/