Policing isn’t independent of the law or legal culture, and police have enormous discretion in how they choose to apply the law. There’s also the entire issue

Policing isn’t independent of the law or legal culture, and police have enormous discretion in how they choose to apply the law. There’s also the entire issue of “non-criminal bias incidents”: https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/opinion/columnists/5238724/hate-crime-police-non-criminal-incidents-euan-mccolm-opinion/ https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/opinion/columnists/5238...