Nottinghamshire Police records misogyny as a hate crime

1916? Doubt you'd want to be a 16-40ish old male in the UK then

Nottinghamshire Police said it would expand its categories to include misogynistic incidents.
It means abuse or harassment which might not be a crime can be reported to and investigated by the police, and support for the victim put in place.

The force defines misogyny hate crime as: "Incidents against women that are motivated by an attitude of a man towards a woman and includes behaviour targeted towards a woman by men simply because they are a woman."

The classification now means people can report incidents which might not be considered to be a crime and the police will investigate.

Nottingham Women's Centre has been helping train call centre, force control staff and officers on the beat to recognise misogynistic hate crime and ways to tackle it.

These officers will also examine if and how a victim can be supported or if anything can be done to help prevent them being targeted again.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-36775398

The article is very clear that this is about labeling things which were previously not crimes as hate crimes.



This makes me wonder how serious the 'hate crimes' are if you have to train people to recognise them.

Its also interesting how this is specifically about misogyny, rather than a more general definition like 'an act of one gender on another based on their gender'.

I wish I lived 100 years ago

What if a woman stabs a woman to death because she's woman, e.g.
romantic rivals contending for the affections of another woman. What then? Is that mysogyny?
How is this not just going full (feminist) retard and only targetting the men? Does this not conflict with the Equality Act? We're all supposed to be equal under the law, right? Unless you're a man in which case you seem to be subject to more laws than women...?

Rape threats and gender based harassment are commonplace for women who express certain political views. If you think that these are not serious enough to be considered as crimes and are a waste of police resources, then this is a waste of a conversation.

I personally would have preferred that they recognised hate crimes against all genders, however that does not mean that the recognition of misogyny is a bad thing.

What is your opinion of the court case referenced in this article?

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-internet-must-never-be-a-safe-space/17668#.V4Z92vkrKM8

How would you prevent misuse of any harassment laws?

The article and my OP were very specific to state that the definition of misogynistic 'hate crime' was extended to things that were previously not criminal; rape threats and sexual harassment are already offenses.

I do not have the full facts of the case and have yet to hear about someone being subjected to a trial merely for disagreeing with members of a political movement. What evidence was used against him?

When someone on the Internet disagrees with me, I will either debate them or just drop it if I can't be bothered. When they insult me, I couldn't care less and would just ignore them or report it to the site moderators if it's racial or gender-based. On the other hand, when someone goes out of their way to threaten and intimidate me (which has happened twice before), that is unacceptable and they deserve what comes their way as a result of their bullying.

Acid attacks are already a crime. As has been pointed out many times, the article is specific in stating that the definition of hate crime is extended for things which previously were not considered crimes.

I would be perfectly pleased for this go ahead - its only going to affect ogres and the general scum of the population, after all - except that its drawing away police resources from more serious crimes, at a time when the tories have cut police budgets, and social tension is rapidly increasing, which means that some more serious criminals are going to slip through Nottingham Police's fingers while they are investigating a man who made a sexist joke.