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The United Kingdom is abolishing its system of recording non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs), which logged over 120,000 reports in five years and consumed more than 60,000 police hours annually. The move, formalized through the Crime and Policing Bill 2025-26, follows years of legal challenges — most notably the landmark Miller v College of Policing ruling — and growing consensus that the system chilled free speech without demonstrably preventing hate crimes.