Brickbat: Information Is Dangerous

Police Scotland says it will no longer investigate minor crimes, but it refuses to say exactly what constitutes a minor crime. In response to a freedom of information request by a local newspaper, the police force said releasing that information would give a "tactical advantage" to criminals. Officials said the move is aimed at freeing up resources to investigate major crimes. Don't worry: Police officials say they will continue to investigate all reported hate crime incidents even if they don't meet the charging threshold.

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[VULGAR MADMAN]

A major crime would be posting the wrong thing on twitter.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Police officials say they will continue to investigate all reported hate crime incidents even if they don't meet the charging threshold.

JK Rowling isn't safe then after all.

[Jerry B.]

Get out the claymores, and have a little good old Scottish vigilantism.

[mad.casual]

Law And Order: Major Case, Maybe Some Minor Cases, Maybe Not, Definitely All the Hate Crimes Whether Major or Minor… Squad!

S1E1: Police respond to a call where a trans individual has been victimized by logging themselves onto Twitter and a person of indeterminate gender is taken to jail for quietly thinking to themselves in public about the moral and logistical consequences of bearing their own children.

[sarcasmic]

So it will be like here in America where cops generally ignore crimes with victims, but are always ready to throw some druggie in prison forever.

[Public Entelectual]

What about lawful efforts to exterminate and root out the barbarous and horrible, wicked and unhappy clan MacGregor?

[B G]

It's worked out so well in SF and L.A. to have local law enforcement announce that no misdemeanor will be prosecuted.

If you need anything from CVS or Tasco and live in Glasgow, you're now on the clock before those kind of businesses decide that it's no longer tenable to keep opening the doors in the morning....

[GroundTruth]

Is this coming from London, or from Scotland itself?

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

Scotland is doing this to themselves.