FGS,
Read the bloody Hate crime laws, and how hate incidents are to be treated. It is clearly described on CitizensAdvice website it only covers 5 characteristics.
For the 5th time, not sex or women.
Two local female MP's Melanie Ong and Diana Johnson have had private members bills to try and add women to the list. All have failed, maybe if faircop or MP's had backed either the law would be different.
I have explained the law, relevant to Harry's case. In every one of my posts, I haven't changed, you keep say Human rights law, but harassment law covers 5 characteristics and is there appropriate to hate incidents, including trans gender people.
The law clearly states any one can report a hate incident, and what it covers, doesn't need to be your original tweet or poem , retweeting or reposting is covered. You don't need to be one of the characteristics, you can be a parent/guardian of one or someone who works with or for them or is in a relationship with them.
once reported as a hate incident it has by law to be recorded by the police, it is then up to that police force whether to investigate further.
the hate crime law isn't difficult or hidden away. Maybe if people on here, put down their blinkers and read the law, you would understand it.
it was brought forward to deal with the aftermath of Stephen Lawrence case, the horrific case where a mother burnt herself and her disabled daughter alive in a car, and numerous gay bashing and religious hate crimes. Our government added trans gender too.
You might hate the law, but Humberside and all other police forces follow it. There are hundreds of you moaning about non crimes tweets from police forces, now you know why they do it.
I say again to get rid of hate incidents you will need to repeal the 1997 act. I don't see the courts being to keen to agree to that.
I decided to leave you to it, you won't read the law and it's guidelines or even accept they are correct. But I want this explanation to be visible to every one who reads this thread.
WHY?
Because as CitizenAdvise say, not ME, it's the law.
You keep saying constantly you want Humberside and the police to up hold the law, CitizenAdvise, the CPS, College of Police and me, all say they are.
It really is not difficult.
change the law, back Melanie Ong/Diana Johnson, not faircop.
By the way it was West Midlands Police and Nottingham who trialled wolf whistling as a hate incident, and called it a success, they even had PCSO talk to offenders and advise them to change their ways. If you backed the MP's you could, have the law you all hate defending you, but I never saw one thread supporting them.
I will leave you to it, by the way ACC Young of Humberside has tweeted why they investigated the incident, why they could do it again, he has explained it on local TV/radio and in local newspapers. He was backed by the police chiefs and CPS.
I really don't get why intelligent people, can't understand a simple law.