Red Okktober wrote:Mekon wrote:I know the following. In 2016/17, there were 80,393 offences recorded by the police in which one or more hate
crime strands were deemed to be a motivating factor. This was an increase of 29 per cent compared with the 62,518 hate crimes recorded in 2015/16.
Short of tin-foil accusations of the police and authorities conspiring to falsify the position you know no better.
Wow - 80,000+ - that's a lot of hate crimes there! No wonder you liberal lefties are so concerned.
Do you know how many of those 80,000 made it to court? I'll tell you - 14,000 (or 16%). In other words 84% of hate crime allegations were thrown out last year. I'd call those allegations pretty spurious in any one's books wouldn't you?
in fact 1,000 fewer made it to court than the previous year, when the allegations were 29% lower. What does this tell us? It tells us that false allegations of hate crime have gone through the fucking roof since Brexit. Yet mugs like you lap it up.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/c ... 03716.html
14,480 actually, of which 83.4% resulted in conviction. The remaining 15.6% can be said to be "thrown out" but not those which were not taken to prosecution since all that demonstrates is that there was insufficient evidence to make a conviction likely, or that they were dealt with in other ways, caution for example. It does not mean that the 80,393 offences recorded by the police in which one or more hate crime strands were deemed to be a motivating factor were spurious.