Police log more non-crime hate incidents despite crackdown

Police are recording more non-crime hate incidents than last year despite a crackdown on the practice, according to official data.

Suella Braverman, the former home secretary, last year told police they should only log reports of hate incidents that were below the criminal threshold if there was a serious risk of harm and not just because someone was offended.

The changes, introduced through statutory guidance in June last year, followed “trivial” cases such as a man who ended up with a police file for whistling the theme tune to Bob the Builder at his neighbour, who perceived racial hatred.

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Trudeau Foundation, premier seek nearly $40K in ‘suretyship’ from alleged sexual harassment victim

The Trudeau Foundation and former Northwest Territories premier Stephen Kakfwi are seeking more than $37,000 in surety from an Indigenous activist suing the foundation and Kakfwi for $2.25 million over alleged sexual harassment.

In a document filed in Quebec Superior Court on Aug. 14, lawyers for the defendants request that Cherry Smiley provide “suretyship for security for the legal costs that the Court could award in favour of the Foundation.”

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Avoidable Valentina Petrillo debacle will rock Paralympics thanks to institutional cowardice

Bewilderment over how father-of-two, who won 11 Italian men’s titles, allowed to line up at Paralympics for T12 400m as a woman

“This was a dream,” says Valentina Petrillo, who today became a Paralympic sprinter at the age of 51, “that I had since I was a little girl.” Except this is an athlete who was never a little girl in the first place. The Italian is a father-of-two who was still competing at 45 as a male, who won national titles in men’s track and field, and whose self-portrayal in 2021 was of a “tough guy who would speak dismissively of women, who would have given you the idea he was sexist”. And yet on Monday morning at the Stade de France, Petrillo, courtesy of institutional cowardice at every level, lined up in the visually-impaired classification of the 400 metres as a woman.

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