{"id":342075,"date":"2018-01-02T17:05:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-london-police-no-longer-investigates-minor-crimes-unless-hate-crime\/"},"modified":"2018-01-02T17:05:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:05:51","slug":"prison-planet-com-london-police-no-longer-investigates-minor-crimes-unless-hate-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-london-police-no-longer-investigates-minor-crimes-unless-hate-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb London Police No Longer Investigates Minor Crimes, Unless \u2018Hate Crime\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/london\/2018\/01\/02\/london-police-will-ignore-minor-crimes-unless-hate-crime\/\"><strong>Breitbart<\/strong><\/a><br \/>January 2, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>London\u2019s Metropolitan Police force will not bother to investigate crimes if officers are required to watch CCTV for more than 20 minutes or there is no footage available.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s largest force will also drop investigations into thousands of lower-level offences and ignore certain crimes such as vandalism, vehicle crime, and fuel theft if damages do not exceed \u00a350.<\/p>\n<p>The new \u201ccrime assessment policy\u201d was uncovered after a Freedom of Information <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/edition\/news\/met-is-giving-up-on-non-serious-crime-67p5gnrhv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">request<\/a>by <em>The Times<\/em>, and comes a time of increasing budgetary pressures and falling police numbers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">But not on hate crime. So if you\u2019re robbed, you could say you thought it also racist etc. Immediate attention. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1HxEF4sAcD\">https:\/\/t.co\/1HxEF4sAcD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter Whittle AM (@prwhittle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prwhittle\/status\/948134276352049153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, according to the policy, employed by the force since September, other crimes, including so-called \u201chate crime\u201d and serious crimes such a homicides and sexual assaults, must always be investigated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/london\/2018\/01\/02\/london-police-will-ignore-minor-crimes-unless-hate-crime\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Tuesday, January 2, 2018  at  7:41 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/london-police-no-longer-investigates-minor-crimes-unless-hate-crime.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/london-police-no-longer-investigates-minor-crimes-unless-hate-crime.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BreitbartJanuary 2, 2018 London\u2019s Metropolitan Police force will not bother to investigate crimes if officers are required to watch CCTV for more than 20 minutes or there is no footage available. The UK\u2019s largest force will also drop investigations into thousands of lower-level offences and ignore certain crimes such as vandalism, vehicle crime, and fuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}