A key child sexual abuse (CSE) whistleblower was told by police she was "rocking the multicultural boat" when passing on intelligence of CSE in Rotherham, a misconduct hearing heard.
Jayne Senior described her "frustration and horror" when much of her information was not taken any further.
She was giving evidence at a hearing into the conduct of ex-Det Sgt David Walker, then of South Yorkshire Police.
Mr Walker denies all the misconduct allegations outlined against him.
The misconduct panel had previously heard that the former police officer failed to record and investigate allegations of CSE in Rotherham.
Ms Senior, who ran the Risky Business youth project between 1999 and 2011, helped to reveal a pattern in the town that saw children groomed, raped and tortured by groups of men for more than a decade.
Speaking at the misconduct hearing, held in Sheffield, Ms Senior explained how she had passed on thousands of pieces of information, adding: "I was given lots of reasons to stop passing intelligence."
At one meeting, she said she was told: "I was going against perpetrators' human rights, I was rocking the multicultural boat, I was being racist."
Ms Senior agreed that this was not said to her by Mr Walker, who is accused of allegations including failing to investigate information that teenage sisters were having sex with workers from a car wash and failing to record concerns made in a series of emails from Ms Senior.
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