Harry Miller is one of Britain’s free speech heroes. When he was visited by an officer from Humberside Police over a tweet that Mr Miller made that was critical of the gender identity cult he didn’t take things lying down. He did the great and correct thing and took the police and the National Police Chiefs Council to court over the whole disgusting, cancerous and oppressive policy of the recording of ‘non-crime hate incidents’.

Although back in December 2021 he won his case and showed up the whole policy of non-crime hate incidents as nothing more than a castle built on shifting sand he’s still keeping on fighting. His group ‘Fair Cop’ has done some digging via Freedom of Information Requests into how many Metropolitan Police officers have been logged as committing non-crime hate incidents. Press reports and Fair Cop’s researches have also found that out of thousands of complaints of racial or other bias made about officers from the Met only one officer has been subjected to being listed as involved in a non-crime hate incident.

Mr Miller said in a piece in The Critic magazine:

In June 2021, The Evening Standard reported that 1,046 Met officers had been accused of racial discrimination during 2020, which was an increase on the previous year’s figure of 773. The year before that, there had been 542. That is 2,361 individual incidents perceived by the victim to be motivated by hostility towards the Monitored Strand of Race. Had the Guidance been followed, this would have resulted in a corresponding number of NCHIs recorded by The Met against its own officers.

Imagine our surprise, then, when data obtained last week by Fair Cop from a Freedom of Information Request revealed that there has been only a single NCHI recorded against a Met police officer since 2014.

It certainly seems that there is a double standard at work here. The public are subjected to the oppressive and damaging effects of having a non-crime hate incident against their name but this rule does not seem to apply to Met Police officers.

Mr Miller added:

Whilst the public has learned to speak in whispers or to gag themselves entirely, the police had herd immunity from the get-go. So, the armed officers who were subject to a complaint for requiring a Muslim woman to remove a hijab at Heathrow were not recorded for hate. Neither were the detectives accused of homophobia in their dealings with the victims of Stephen Port. Neither were members of the Force Support Group accused of degrading treatment of disabled activists at an XR protest. Neither were the traffic cops accused of racial profiling by Labour MP Dawn Butler in a stop and search. 

Mr Miller continued to explain how arbitrary and capricious the non-crime hate incident recording system was and how it showed up not only a double standard but also smashed the idea that the police are the public in uniform. Mr Miller also said that the failure to treat how it showed a ‘mocking contempt’ for the legacy of the Stephen Lawrence enquiry that stated that the police should keep a close watch on the attitudes of officers. Mr Miller is correct on this matter. I worked around the police back in the eighties when I was a court reporter and there was a spectacular level of racism in the police at that time. It was sadly not uncommon for police officers to refer to Black people as ‘Sooty’s’ at that time. The Stephen Lawrence enquiry was supposed to stop such biased behaviour but all that seems to have occurred is that the police have exempted themselves from the very recording mechanism that should have kept a watch of the attitudes of police officers. As Mr Miller and others have said the idea of recording non-crime hate incidents came from a good place, the desire that all British subjects would be treated equally, but they have been misused and corrupted. They have become a method of oppressing and doing damage to members of the public who may express a certain view that is unpopular with the Left and the identity politics crowd whilst the police seem to have been exempted from the strictures of the non-crime hate incident system.

Personally I believe the whole edifice of ‘hate speech’ and ‘hate crimes’ needs to go. We must return to the laudable and biblically based idea that all Britons, no matter who we are are treated equally by the state and by other entities.