British police are back to investigating crime, not hurt feelings.The United Kingdom is the leading country in incarcerating citizens for social media posts, and – what’s worse – police wasted time and resources with something called ‘non-crime hate incidents’.You read it right: perfectly legal posts.But now, the police are no longer involved in these internet arguments, and that has enabled officers to ‘solve more real crimes’.Police time will no longer be wasted investigating legal social media posts, freeing up officers to patrol the streets and tackle real crime.By scrapping Non‑Crime Hate Incidents, we are balancing the protection of vulnerable communities while respecting free speech.— Home Office (@ukhomeoffice) March 31, 2026The Telegraph reported:“Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said the force had doubled the number of real hate crimes that it had solved since he announced in December last year that his force would no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs).In an exclusive article for The Telegraph, he said this change had already saved officers ‘thousands of hours’, enabling them to devote more time to ‘preventing and solving crime, protecting vulnerable people, and responding to real risks of harm’.”It’s been two days since Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced the abolition of NCHIs nationally.“Sir Mark, whose force pre-empted the national move, said NCHIs had ‘eroded’ the public’s trust in the police because of ‘unclear guidance’ from policing bodies and the Government on how to apply them.Officers had been knocking on people’s doors to deal with ‘online squabbles and everyday disagreements that never met the threshold of criminality’, he said.”‘It’s absurd to do this on a case-by-case basis.’Comedy Writer Graham Linehan believes that freedom of speech needs to be protected in Britain, as the Government says non-crime hate incidents are to be scrapped.‘Everything has to be talked about.’ pic.twitter.com/6g5AKcD2ya— GB News (@GBNEWS) April 2, 2026Read more:U.K. Metropolitan Police to Require Officers to Declare Freemason Membership/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i