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Police in England and Wales investigate alleged hate speech by first deciding whether reported conduct meets a criminal threshold (a hate crime) or is a non‑crime hate incident; forces record and inve...
U.S. federal law already bans production, distribution, and possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and treats “realistic” computer-generated images as illegal when they are “indistinguishabl...
Since 2015 the landscape for policing and prosecuting online communications has shifted from piecemeal statutory tweaks to a coordinated charging and prosecutorial framework: Parliament lowered eviden...
Police custody data obtained and reported in major outlets show roughly 12,000 UK arrests in a recent year for online communications described as “offensive” or causing “anxiety”, which equates to “mo...
London’s knife-enabled offences rose sharply through the 2010s, peaked around 2019/20, then stayed at elevated levels into the early 2020s before signs of a modest fall by 2025; national figures show ...
ICE’s Special Agent physical fitness instruction is embedded in formal HSI Academy curricula that include weekly conditioning and tactical practice during multi-week investigator and special agent cou...
UK police use a combination of automated hash-matching (CAID), rapid triage tools, and full forensic examination to distinguish deliberate possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from acciden...
UK police increasingly rely on digital traces — social media posts, private messages and platform metadata — both to investigate criminal hate speech and to log “non‑crime hate incidents,” with custod...