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What has been the result of this new law?
Almost 8,000 hate crimes were reported to Police in just one week. Scotland has much the same population as New Zealand, so how many more Police would we need if we had the same response.
Let’s say a police officer needs two hours to assess and deal with each complaint (on average). One officer could do 20 a week, so you’d need 400 more officers just to cope with the people complaining.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
7 comments:
Who is going to judge this? It is 5.30am, time for my first tincture of scotch for the day.
Kevan
Perception is individualistic. How can you possibly have a law that relies on such a variable. Just another example of woke nonsense. Scots are normally straight to the point, are learned people and generally wise. I doubt a Scot formulated this piece of nonsense into a law.
It is just ridiculous to have any law at all which defines an offence as depending on the feelings of the recipient.
Somebody calls me a "privileged white boomer" Holy S**t!! I FEEL so, so offended, and hurt! My personal feelings make it a "crime".
If I don't feel offended, it's not a crime.!!
But you are a sexually normal White male, Doug, so your being offended at anything at all said about you (and me) doesn't count....... in fact we compound our sins by daring to be offended.
You have got it, Barend !
Us cis, straight, pale, males are so last century !!
Oh Dear - "I am also a cis, straight, pale, male and I love Scots Whiskey, will this mean I will reported for being Racist".
Words matter and you should know because you use them all the time. Words are weapons something else you should have picked up over the years. It does matter what is said on-line. Newspapers and other print media have laws they must abide by but on-line is different. It is an attempt to control an awful on-line epidemic - probably not enforceable. I noticed beside all the ranting no-one seems to think there is anything wrong with the actual hateful speech and so I have to assume you are all fine with a complete free for all. This is not great for women, invalids or other 'misfits' nor does it make society safe.
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