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Posted on 03/06/2026 11:38:31 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Police Scotland has refused to release the number of call-outs to asylum hotels over fears the data could spark violence and "heighten community tensions".
The national force was slammed for dodging a "reasonable request" from the Scottish Daily Express to reveal the true scale of crime at migrant hotels in Scotland.
Police bosses admitted they are concerned that releasing the data will result in more angry scenes outside the hotels, after a number of high-profile protests and counter-protests across Scotland last year.
Our Freedom of Information request asked for the number of incidents, including crimes recorded, police call-outs and arrests made, at five migrant hotels.
They were: the Muthu Glasgow River Hotel in Erskine; McLays Guest House in Glasgow; The Watermill Hotel in Paisley; The Bruce Hotel in East Kilbride; and the Cladhan Hotel in Falkirk – scene of many of last summer's protests.
McLays Guest House and The Bruce Hotel have never been confirmed as hosting migrants before. However, Police Scotland said: "Our understanding of the locations listed in your request is that they are currently, or have recently, been used to house homeless individuals, including refugees or asylum seekers."
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I’m interested in the mechanism in place that has most Western governments choosing migrants over their own people. Is it that people have become so ignorant, and so passive that governments can do this with very little concern for consequences?
It puzzles me. The political choices people make are nothing less than slow suicide.
“””Police Scotland has refused to release the number of call-outs to asylum hotels over fears the data could spark violence and “heighten community tensions”.””””
This is standard operating procedure in most of Europe to downplay crime. Most European countries do not name the person arrested for a crime. Unlike in the USA where mugshots of arrested persons are regularly published.
It is that the entirety of the government apparatus believes we have unlimited monies available to spend on every possible thing to get votes through the religion of Liberalism, and stealing from non-liberals to achieve liberal ends is as beautiful as it gets.
Even the criminals vote liberal after seeing who butters their bread.
The blue urban hives here also hide crime statistics. It is purposely avoiding reality.
Police Scotland? Huh?
Here is my grammatical and logical analysis of this article:
## Grammatical / Stylistic Issues
1. **“call-outs” usage**
“Call-outs” is informal and police jargon; in a formal news context “police call-outs” or “police call‑outs to asylum hotels” is clearer and should be consistent with later “police call-outs and arrests made.”
2. **“over fears the data could spark violence”**
More standard would be “over fears that the data could spark violence” (missing “that”).
3. **“was slammed for dodging a ‘reasonable request’”**
Informal/tabloid phrasing. Grammatically fine, but stylistically biased and colloquial for straight reporting; “criticized for refusing a ‘reasonable request’” would be more neutral.
4. **“to reveal the true scale of crime at migrant hotels”**
This is not strictly ungrammatical, but “true scale” is evaluative and implies prior concealment; in objective style you’d usually say “to reveal the scale of crime.”
5. **“after a number of high-profile protests and counter-protests across Scotland last year”**
Grammatically fine, but the time reference “last year” without a specific year can become ambiguous as the text ages.
6. **“Our Freedom of Information request asked for the number of incidents, including crimes recorded, police call-outs and arrests made, at five migrant hotels.”**
- Parallelism is slightly off: “the number of incidents, including crimes recorded, police call-outs and arrests made” mixes “incidents” and “arrests made” in one list. More precise: “asked for figures on incidents, crimes recorded, police call-outs, and arrests at five migrant hotels.”
- Also, “Our Freedom of Information request asked…” is anthropomorphic; “In our Freedom of Information request, we asked…” is cleaner.
7. **List punctuation of hotels**
The list is long but structurally okay. Some editors would remove the capitalization of “The” in “The Watermill Hotel” and “The Bruce Hotel” if “The” is not part of the official name, but that’s a style choice.
8. **“scene of many of last summer’s protests”**
Slightly clunky; more natural: “which was the scene of many protests last summer.”
9. **“have never been confirmed as hosting migrants before”**
“Never been confirmed” is vague and slightly awkward. Clearer: “had not previously been publicly confirmed as hosting migrants” or “had not previously been confirmed as housing asylum seekers.”
10. **“used to house homeless individuals, including refugees or asylum seekers.”**
“Including refugees or asylum seekers” is slightly off because “refugees” and “asylum seekers” are usually subsets of “homeless individuals” in this context; “including refugees and asylum seekers” is smoother, or “used to house homeless individuals as well as refugees and asylum seekers.”
## Logical / Coherence Issues
1. **Shift from “asylum hotels” to “migrant hotels” to “homeless individuals”**
- The first sentence speaks of “asylum hotels.”
- Then “crime at migrant hotels” is used.
- Later, police say the locations are used “to house homeless individuals, including refugees or asylum seekers.”
This inconsistency blurs whether the hotels are primarily “asylum hotels,” “migrant hotels,” or mixed-use homeless/refugee accommodation. The categories are being swapped as if they were identical.
2. **Implied assumption of “crime” without data**
The piece calls it a request “to reveal the true scale of crime at migrant hotels,” presupposing a significant crime problem before any data is released. That is a logical leap: the request was for “incidents… crimes recorded… call-outs and arrests,” which might or might not indicate high crime.
3. **Causality around “community tensions”**
Police Scotland’s rationale is summarized as fearing the data “could spark violence and heighten community tensions,” but the article simultaneously asserts the request is “reasonable” and frames refusal as “dodging.” There’s an implicit tension: you cannot both assume the data are harmless (reasonable and neutral) and accept, at face value, that releasing them could plausibly incite violence, without addressing that conflict.
4. **Confirmation of hotel use vs. hosting migrants**
It says “McLays Guest House and The Bruce Hotel have never been confirmed as hosting migrants before,” then immediately quotes Police Scotland saying they are “used to house homeless individuals, including refugees or asylum seekers.”
- If this statement is accepted, then they *have now* been publicly confirmed as hosting refugees/asylum seekers.
- If the point is that the *government* had not previously confirmed it, that distinction needs to be made explicit, otherwise it reads as self‑contradictory.
5. **Attribution of motive (“dodging a ‘reasonable request’”)**
Describing the force as “slammed for dodging” implies intentional evasion rather than, for example, adherence to a disclosure policy due to safety concerns. That is an interpretation, not established fact, and it’s presented as if it were a straightforward description.
6. **Scope of “crime at migrant hotels” vs. “number of incidents”**
The FOI request is for “number of incidents, including crimes recorded, police call-outs and arrests,” which could include non-criminal incidents (e.g., welfare checks, noise complaints, missing persons). Equating this directly with “crime at migrant hotels” is logically imprecise and potentially misleading.
There is a reason why the left has pounded the racist/bigot/hater/phobe/blah blah blah drum so loudly and for so long.
Intimidating people into silence as their country is being overrun was the point.
When you go back and read what the Scots were like during the Tudor period, for example - hell, and even the Brits during the Tudor era itself - and compare them to what these people are like today, it's astounding how beat down and afraid they have become.
The UK needs their own Trump, and fast.
Just let the asylum hotel criminals run wild on Scots , British police are worthless
Because “Democracy” requires that the voters be un-informed.
Otherwise the will of the people might be thwarted.
“Diversity” is their strength. “Cultural enrichment” in Scotland
Google Gemini (AI) Search Assist: A 12-year-old girl in Dundee was charged with possession of offensive weapons after allegedly brandishing a knife and an axe in August 2025. She will be referred to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration and the Procurator Fiscal as the investigation continues.
All part of the Africanization of Europe.
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