Quote Durham Giant="Durham Giant"No.
But i think that someone coming up to you in the street and saying, " you should die" is a bit more threatening and serious than someone typing a message on a social media site saying " you should die". Even if accompanied with racist or misogynist language.
Investigating the first and dealing with it would be a better use of resources than chasing and prosecuting idiots who post messages on social media.'"
If those 2 things were happening at exactly the same time and the police could only deal with 1 incident then yes I'd hope they dealt with the "spoken" threat first. But since that's not the case what you're effectively saying is the police shouldn't investigate a crime because a more serious one either has or might happen somewhere else. If that were the case then only murders would ever get investigated.
If a crime, any crime, is reported or seen by the police I want them to investigate it.
Also there are plenty of cases where a written threat very quickly turns into a "spoken" threat or actual violence. Especially against women.
