Now You Can't Even Whistle The Tune To Bob The Builder!

[ToraToraTora]

This and other madness......
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1464204/Woke-news-racial-hatred-police-record-Bob-The-Builder-political-correctness

[jno]

I must say I hadn't realise you could be fingered for hate even when no crime is involved.

[dannyk13]

An over the top reaction from the police.

[ToraToraTora]

it seems you can jno!

[ToraToraTora]

what about this one:
"In West Yorkshire, police recorded a non-crime hate incident against a swimming teacher, after a boy hit his head on the side of the pool.

His mother claimed the teacher allowed this “due to his ethnicity”, and police were obliged to make the report." - so the kid bangs it's loaf but it's down to some sort of race issue from the teacher?? You couldn't make it up!

[THECORBYLOON]

"Now You Can't Even Whistle The Tune To Bob The Builder!"

Where does it claim that? Try it now, outside and let us know what happens.

[Canary42]

As I've stated before, many fine moral initiatives are ruined when the extremists take over.

[Gromit]

// Details about the Bedfordshire whistling case are not known, but it is just one of a number of unusual hate incident reports by police. //

Obviously whistling the Bob the Builder theme is not in itself a crime, and there is nothing to stop you or I from tootling it.
How it became recorded as a racist incident is a mystery, as the Express offers no explanation.
But rest assured, you can belt out your version of the Bob theme.

[NeedToKnowPlease]

No, you can whistle the tune to bob the builder. It's just if someone thinks that you're whistling it at them for non-crime hate incident reasons (and if they report that to the police) the police are obliged to file a report.

It doesn't mean anything will come from it.

[NeedToKnowPlease]

Dannyk13, it may seem over the top but they can't pick and choose what incidents to report and which to not report. If someone files the complaint they're obliged to make a report. It just is how it is.

[dannyk13]

NTK , in my day a police officer was allowed a certain amount of discretion, which in this case, at the most, would have been a verbal warnming.

[NeedToKnowPlease]

I'm not sure when your day was but it's 2021 where individual coppers aren't allowed to decide what is and isn't a non-crime hate incident.

[barry1010]

danny, was that the time when some police officers' discretion could be bought? :D

[Ken4155]

"Details about the Bedfordshire whistling case are not known...."
Probably much more to it than the scant details we have.

[dannyk13]

Barry, I will ignore that remark.

[Gromit]

You cannot say discretion should have been used when we know absolutely nothing about the incident.

But the rule/law obliging the police to log the incident is flawed. Anyone can make an allegation about someone else, and does not even have to prove it, and that black mark stays on file for 6 years. That is just unfair.

[ToraToraTora]

NTK: "It doesn't mean anything will come from it. " - err it means its down on some sort of register for 6 years and could stop you getting a job.

[dannyk13]

Gromit//You cannot say discretion should have been used when we know absolutely nothing about the incident.//
The officer attending would know enough to make a decision.It is a very sad idea to take away the ability of a police officer to think for him/herself. IMHO.

[Gromit]

dannyk13
But we don’t know if the Officers did use some discretion. Because we don’t anything other than it was recorded.

[NeedToKnowPlease]

"and could stop you getting a job."

Follow the rules then, simple!

If you're involved in incidents that end up needing to be reported to the police if they're "non-crime" hate incidents or not don't you think an employer should know about that before they decide to throw you into their environment? Because I do.

[david small]

The more oxygen that you give to this mob, the faster they’ll breathe.