Police in England and Wales consider making misogyny a hate crime (legal, lawyers)

[dude1984]

Police forces across England and Wales are considering expanding their definition of hate crime to include misogyny after an experiment in one city that saw more than 20 investigations launched in two months.

The initial success of Nottingham’s crackdown against sexist abuse has drawn national interest after the city’s police revealed that they investigated a case of misogyny every three days during July and August, the first months to see specially trained officers targeting behaviour ranging from street harassment to unwanted physical approaches.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...lice-crackdown

[golimar]

The Police in UK allowed Muslim grooming gangs to go on for years. They didn't take any action because they feared it would affect social cohesion.

1400 Infidel girls as young as 11 were routinely raped, tortured, mutilated, and passed around by these Muslim gangs in just this one small city of Rotherham.

Rotherham 1400.

[mtl1]

Muslims>women>men on the liberal progressive hierarchy.

[The Dark Enlightenment]

the city’s police revealed that they investigated a case of misogyny every three days during July and August, the first months to see specially trained officers targeting behaviour ranging from street harassment to unwanted physical approaches.

So men who aggressively flirt with and pursue women are being charged with... hating women?


Misogyny | Definition of Misogyny by Merriam-Webster

[Brave New World]

Don't actually see any new laws being made, although misogny might be an aggrevating factor in a Court Case if it was deemed a hate crime, although that would need new Parliamentay Ammendments to Legislation.

If you examine the two arrests so far one was for public order offences and the other actual bodily harm, both already offences in the UK.

Other offences that could be used include harrasement (sexual) and common assault.

What should also be remembered is that the police in the UK have no power to prosecute, everything has to go though Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Lawyers who decide whether to prosecute and put the case before the courts or to discontinue it, and for those cases that do proceed to the Courts it is for Judges and indeed in more serious cases Juries to decide on such issues. It also should be noted that people accused of criminal offences in the UK qualify for Legal Aid and a Lawyer and many Lawyers would relish taking on cases of misogny of all things, something which might be very difficult to prove in a Court of Law.

So it's not up to police forces to make the Law or to determine the Law, that is for Parliament and the Judiciary, so a Police Force can not just decide that Misogny is a hate crime and should be an aggrevating factor, that is for Parliament and the Courts to decide.

misogyny | University of Bristol Law School Blog

[PullMyFinger]

At least they are trying to protect their women from these wonderful Muslims they are allowing into their country. I'm sure they are the ones causing the need for these laws.