Tonight in the House of Lords, Lord Young of Acton proposed an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that would scrap Non-Crime Hate Incidents. NCHIs have had a chilling effect on free speech — while also being a complete waste of police time. Since the concept of NCHIs was introduced in 2014, police forces in England and Wales alone are estimated to have spent at least 660,000 hours investigating and recording them. These include NCHIs logged against a woman for saying she thought her cat wa