THE head of Police Scotland has said that there is “no doubt” those who shared misinformation about Scotland’s hate crime legislation caused a…
THE head of Police Scotland has said that there is “no doubt” those who shared misinformation about Scotland’s hate crime legislation caused a “frenzy when it was first introduced.
Following the first week of the legislation being implemented, Police Scotland revealed that a total of 7152 online reports of alleged hate crimes had been made, which led to reports of 240 hate crimes being recorded. She added that this created a “frenzy” and that “in those first weeks, we were then dealing with the impact of that”.“Now we’ve probably reverted back to steady state and actually what you see is an increase in the number of crimes and some of those are in those new areas where there’s a protected characteristic,” she added.
Unfortunately, though, these important debates are being spoiled by a vocal minority of trolls who aren’t really interested in the issues, try to derail the conversations, register under fake names, and post vile abuse.
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