The Leicestershire Police area has a problem with crime. According to the Crime Rate website the Leicestershire area had as of mid 2022 approximately 36,000 violence and sexual offences, 9,000 incidents of anti social behaviour, 3500 burglaries and 11,300 public order crimes. Leicester city itself was 30% more crime riddled and dangerous than the average for Leicestershire as a whole. The Leicestershire area has also seen religious riots between Hindus and Muslims and there’s been allegations on social media that the area is afflicted by on street child grooming.
It’s pretty obvious, even to the most casual of observers, that Leicestershire has a serious crime problem and one that Leicestershire Police are not effectively controlling. This situation does not benefit the average Leicestershire resident who in some areas that are covered by Leicestershire Police must live in fear of crime every day.
However, Leicestershire Police’s response to all this crime is to virtue signal about ‘National Hate Crime Week’. This virtue signalling when placed in the context of Leicestershire’s crime problems looks a little like fiddling whilst Rome burns.
As a part of Leicestershire Police’s virtue signalling over National Hate Crime Week the force put out a post on Twitter featuring an image (see below) of an obvious transsexual accompanied by text purporting to be from the individual featured in the image whining about being ‘deadnamed’ which is people using their male birth name rather than their chosen female name.
As could very well be expected this Tweet got a lot of negative responses, largely from women who were worried about whether they or their daughters would encounter this individual in a ladies toilet or a women’s changing room. When Leicestershire Police got this criticism they doubled down on their position of defending both the post and National Hate Crime Week.
But after a few days of this criticism Leicestershire Police climbed down and the Chief Constable issued an apology for the post. The statement by Temporary Chief Constable Rob Nixon said that the original communication was not based on a genuine ‘hate crime’ complaint to the police and that the person featured in the image was from a stock image from a picture library. Worse still Temporary Chief Constable Nixon said that the wording was not from a genuine case or from a genuine complainant but was cobbled together by officers from Leicestershire Police. Basically the whole original Twitter communication about a person complaining about being ‘misgendered’ was bogus.
But if this admission that the image and the wording was fake then other parts of Temporary Chief Constable Nixon’s statement are even worse. In his statement he said that ‘gender identity’ is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act when that is not the case. The 2010 Equality Act recognises that those who have been through a transition process are considered to have a protected characteristic, not those who merely claim to have a specific ‘gender identity’. This officer has misrepresented what the law states.
So what we have here with regards Leicestershire Police is a force that not only puts out bullshit ‘hate crime’ messages cobbled together from stock images and textual input from what I presume to be politically activist police officers but one which also can’t be straight about what is and what is not the law. Leicestershire Police is a mess of a force which virtue signals when what they should be doing is getting a grip on the horrendous levels of crime that the people of Leicestershire are having to deal with. When people see blatantly dishonest behaviour like this from their local police where the law is not quoted properly and messages put out to the public are basically fake, then is it any wonder that more and more people are losing trust and respect for the police?
Never talk to the Police! Here is why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi434yXk_qo
This is short version, there is a longer version.
It is very educational & wise.
I agree. Although the video you’ve linked to is primarily concerned with the police in the USA some things in it do readily translate to the UK situation. Most notably the idea that talking to the police does not bring any benefit to the person who has been apprehended. What the police are after is for the detained person to incriminate themselves in some way. I’ve been aware of this issue for years which is why when I was arrested for a ‘speech crime’ back in 2019 I said nothing apart from have my solicitor state that any defence would be based on article ten of the European Convention for Human Rights ie the right speak freely. I gave a no comment interview apart from that and refused to disclose passwords for any of the numerous articles seized by the police on my arrest. The police eventually dropped the case because of a lack of evidence.
If someone is being interviewed by the police then they need to realise that the police are not interested in anything tht you might say in order to clear your name, they just want anything that they can use to build a case against you.
If Leicestershire police are like ours things are a great deal worse than stated. Around here the police will do anything to avoid recording a crime up to and including telling lies. I tried reporting criminal cases several times only to be fobbed off by being told “that’s nothing to do with us its a civil matter”. Fortunately I have some knowledge of the law and when told that the police had a sudden change of heart and recorded the crimes after all. Those who don’t know the law have little chance of getting a crime recorded.
I suspect that things might indeed be worse than could be assumed in Leicestershire, a perusal of the crime stats from the Crime Rate site shows that things are particularly bad with anti social behaviour, violence and sex crimes. However these figures are I must assume based on those cases that have been reported to the police or given at least a cursory investigation by them. The actual figures especially with regards violence and anti social behaviour might be far worse.
What really gets me about this case is the temporary CC’s comments about ‘gender identity’ being protected. It is not. Gender reassignment is a protected characteristic but not gender identity. It took me all of one minute to find this info from Parliamentary sources yet this CC can’t even be arsed to make sure that his statement is based in law.