NZ: 'WAAH! WAAH!' Racism Complaints But No Evidence

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 * Racially abusing Whites is not considered to be a crime.

* Non-Whites that merely feel offended ... That's a HATE-CRIME!

No Evidence? No Crime!

Hate crimes: Almost half complaints to police wrongly rightly downgraded

Ben Strang | RNZ New Zealand | 3 December 2020

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/431996/hate-crimes-almost-half-complaints-to-police-wrongly-downgraded

Excerpt: Police have published their annual data quality report, which highlights the problems with how the offences are being dealt with.

Hate crimes include racially motivated abuse, violence, threats or intimidation, and the latest figures from police show the majority of staff do not know how to code them.

According to the report published this week, 43 percent of hate crime complaints have been downgraded from what should be classed as a criminal offence.

Often they are called an incident, and not a crime, while a small number are also reduced to a lesser offence.

About 15 percent of complaints are upgraded to a higher level than they should be.

Just four out of 10 complaints are being dealt with properly.

Anjum Rahman, from the Islamic Women's Council, said "WAAH! WAAH!"  :'(

But Police Association president Chris Cahill told Nine to Noon recording the data was complicated and police had to be careful.

"The vast majority of offences that are re-coded are actually public disorder offending. What's reported over a phone can often be incredibly different when police turn up."

Often there was not enough evidence to support a hate crime, he said.

If every incident of racial abuse, for example, was recorded, it could flood the system and blur the focus of where real dangers existed, Cahill said.

"It's really important that what's recorded actually identifies significant problems that need to be addressed, and I'd hate that to be lost in the idea of ticking a box every time there is something."

He gave an example of someone robbing a store and then racially abusing the owner.

"From the perception of the dairy owner, they have been targeted because of their race. The intention of the offender was to rob a dairy. Police have recorded as a robbery because that is the specific offence."

Cahill agreed there needed to be better recording of offences over all, but that officers had to be accurate.