In response to Laurence Hodge: Lies, damned lies and hate crime, boomslang74 wrote:

‘No religion’ and ‘Unknown’ categories in a statistical breakdown of . . . religious hate crimes. Seriously? I mean, do these people have any idea of how stupid they are?!

Also, please could we have the concurrent stats for the numbers of actual crimes that are ignored by the police, in order to give them the time and resources to pursue this insanity, including those ones where the victims offer to provide pristine CCTV footage of said crimes and plod doesn’t even bother to turn up.

Policing by consent? I never consented to this disgrace.