>> If it was reported as a 'hate crime' then the police are obliged to take
>> it seriously and investigate - even if their coppers noses tell them it's nothing.
If the mere act of someone reporting something as a "hate crime" results in arrest, interview, swabs and so on, then what happens if a disgruntled citizen who has just been through that process elects to report any policeman, from the local bobby to the Chief Constable, for some sort of "hate crime" every time he makes an announcement, twitters, speaks in public and so forth?
Are the police obliged to take it seriously and investigate, at least once?
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