Our thanks to Dave for this. How predictable that the Metropolitan Police, headed by Cressida Dick, a lesbian, should jump on this bandwagon. The start of the piece:
Wolf whistling or making sexist remarks on London’s streets could become a hate crime.
The Metropolitan Police today revealed it is speaking with other UK forces to assess whether it is worth cracking down on gender-based hate crimes after a pilot scheme was launched in the East Midlands last year.
The trial, led by Nottinghamshire Police, saw sexist incidents like street harassment, verbal abuse and taking photos without consent recorded as hate crimes, carrying tougher penalties for offenders.
Police chiefs are now considering rolling out the idea elsewhere in the UK, suggesting a harsher stance on everyday sexism could stop it escalating into sexual harassment or assault. [J4MB emphasis]
Justice for Men & Boys 
And the evidence that a wolf whistle can escalate into assault is…? The Oxonian Dick should know better.
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Excellent point Nick indeed!
But of course it pertains to rational logic – not a feminist strong point.
And will the ‘”Oxonian Dick” (haha!) be influenced by your correct suggestion that they SHOULD know better
Discuss…..
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remember we are in the age of “precog” where intentions can be inferred and future crimes are punished in advance. So glad I am not living in GB (but I am sure Ireland is soon to follow up)
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I worked in London for 30 years and never witnessed any ‘street harassment’ of any sort, nor do I remember having heard any whistles either.
As for taking photographs without ‘consent’, as it stands there IS a legal right to take photographs in any public place, or from a public place, so the that law would have to changed on that score also, as well as the defence that in a crowded place like London (or indeed any city or town) the problem would arise of what the photograph was acutually meant to be of. (A building or famous tourist attraction, or of people known to the photographer who HAD given consent for example.)
Although do-able one might argue, – perhaps – but what a parliamentary nusiance when the legislative timetable is usually so tight.
So there are practical problems with this proposal at the moment.
I realise though, that this is not the immediate point of the initiative, which is more that it has been floated at all in the first place, making it easier to revisit at some later date is which more likely – but hardly much better for that I agree.
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It’s actually worse than that. If someone says you wolf-whistled or said a sexist remark, then that’s enough to signal a hate crime. No supporting evidence needed. Expect more cases like this https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/what-happened-when-i-was-charged-with-a-hate-crime/
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Reading the piece I was aware, again, of how vulnerable all of us are to false allegations and how important is Mark Pearson’s appeal for funds to pursue the Metropolitan Police and the Crown Prosecution Service for their crimes against him. It struck me that Kevin O’Sullivan could turn his £15,000.00 loss to some account by making a substantial donation to Mr Pearson’s appeal.
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Yet more evidence of selective enforcement of the law with a zeal to prosecute when to do so is aligned with current political goals and none at all when against. If there is clear CCTV evidence that no call was made why was the complaintent not prosecuted for perjury, or attempting to pevert the course of justice? If there was evidence that he started the incident and it had to go to court why were both not charged and the court allowed to allllocate blame?
This is part of the same pattern as the failure to prosecute even the most clear cut false rape allegations where there is clear evidence that there has been false testimony. Think of Alexander Economou or Mark Pearson. Clear video evidence of malicous an ddeliberate deception with the goal of putting an innocent man in jail and nothing is done.
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Is Cressida Dick a lesbian or is she just one of the many ‘lesbians’ who have no choice other than to consort with their own sex because no sane and sighted man with more than half a brain would be interested in her?
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It would explain what motivates her bigoted infringement of men’s civil liberties.
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A girl wolf whistled at me as recently as 1973. She was blond and Finnish and followed it up by shouting “Sexy boy” Of course it was a terrible experience But worse than that, it hasn’t happened since.
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There’s no statute of offences for sexual harassment; get yourself on Twitter, and then down to a police station. With any luck you can still catch this now-grandmother before she does it to anyone else!
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So whistling at a female should be a crime, but males can be viciously sexually mutilated with knives and not only is that ignored it’s actually promoted as “human rights”. What a joke!
Men are people too, men’s rights are human rights.
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“The Metropolitan Police today revealed it is speaking with other UK forces to assess whether it is worth cracking down on gender-based hate crimes”
No, it isn’t worth it. In what world does whistling need to be dealt with as a crime whilst burglary and shoplifting don’t? Ludicrous.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/met-police-spending-cuts-400-million-funding-london-crimes-not-investigated-burglary-assault-a8002746.html
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The point of this campaign is to collect “evidence” to pressure Parliament (well the government) to change the law to include misogyny as a hate crime. Now of course the immediate legal problem is that “sex” is the protected characteristic not “woman”. So the police forces have to collate overwhelming evidence that such hate is gendered. Which of course they can do if they only collate evidence on misogyny.
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Ah yes, Cressida Dick, the SJW confirming to all the stereotypes of lesbian feminists as man hating commissars just itching to get into power so they can use it against straight guys. But, to give her credit, she doesn’t pretend that this latest outrage again common sense and civil liberties is some kind of pseudo pan-sexual, cross-gender “crime” (we really need to stop inventing new offences by the way; it really is becoming a social disease).
She just comes out and says “We are going to target straight guys for behaviour anyone can do”. Guess all LGBTQ people who refer to straights as “breeders”, or the rad fems who call men scum on FB and discuss setting curfews for us can breathe easy. Remember who SJW equality works in practice the next time you hear one talking about how all they want is ponies for everyone next time.
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This has to be one of the most worrying developments in the United Kingdom so far, suppassing even the UK’s entry into being a police state a few years ago. While it is good that local police forces can determine where they wish to place an emphasis to solve or prevent the most crime, it is not up to any police force to determine what the law is.
The input from senior police officers help lawmakers to understand what changes are needed to the law. However, the concept of stamping out harmless behaviour as a thought crime that might possibly have led to a real crime is abhorrent.
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