Cops MUST stop wasting time chasing after petty, brain fart tweets while REAL crimes go unsolved, campaigners say

Free speech activists have called on COPS to cease wasting time investigating minor occurrences while actual crimes remain unsolved.

They are calling for a revision of the laws that they claim are restricting free expression and shackling overburdened forces.

It follows Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson’s disclosure that she was questioned by police on a deleted tweet from a year ago.

According to Pearson, she thought the post was being handled as a non-crime hate event because police would not provide information about it or the complaint against her.

Body-worn video, according to EssexPolice, fully supports our stance that it was a criminal inquiry, and they emphasized that this was completely untrue.

However, the force has now withdrawn the case in the face of mounting criticism after it was revealed that working professionals and children as young as nine had been the subject of investigations for alleged non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs).

Toby Young, the head of the Free Speech Union, told Never Mind The Ballots: “Free speech will be severely curbed if there is a chance that the police may arrive at your home if you have a mental breakdown and say something foolish on social media.

“And it’s also going to tie up the police (who will be) wasting time investigating these petty incidents.”

He disclosed that since 2014, there have been more than 250,000 non-crime hate incidents—an average of 65 each day.

Free speech has its limits, according to political analyst Matthew Stadlen, but he also said that the laws governing non-crime hate crimes would require “tidying up.”

He continued: “They shouldn’t be policing something that is distasteful if that doesn’t meet the bar of inciting, for example, religious hatred or racial hatred or indeed inciting violence.”

In a lecture at a significant policing conference on Wednesday, Chris Philp advocated for the revision of the policies pertaining to the occurrences.

Gavin Stephens, the chairman of the National Police Chiefs Council, told delegates on Tuesday that the occurrences needed to be looked at in order to identify potential warning signs of violence.

Speaking in Westminster, however, Mr. Philp urged police departments to exercise common sense, claiming that reforms would restore public trust in law enforcement and free up time for combating crime.

“If we can get those detection rates rising, confidence and trust in policing will invariably rise with them,” he said, adding that police pledges from the previous year to always follow all legitimate lines of inquiry must be implemented in practice. The public anticipates that.

In the past, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has pledged to increase the number of hate crimes that are recorded.

Whether the current procedure “strikes the right balance” is presently being examined by the Home Office.

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