As reports of hate crime rise, Londoners share stories of racist abuse.

The Met recognizes that hate crime, including racist hate crime, has a serious and lasting impact.

The force said it was establishing a new detective-led hate crime team to improve investigations.

Supt Owen Renowden, the Met’s head of hate crime, said in a statement: “We are streamlining our approach to improve the speed and quality of our response, while strengthening outcomes for victims.”

A common theme in all these stories is the disbelief that the racist abuses of our parents’ and grandparents’ generation are still happening in modern London.

Jimmy said: “We’ve been here in England for generations and although my parents had racism, my grandparents also faced racism, and now I’m part of that, I guess, pain and I guess, all that trauma.”

Ashley and Uzma say they feel responsible for speaking up.

“Maybe in our parents’ generation they just despised it,” says Ashley.

I think what’s different now is that our generation is going to call it out when something is wrong.

Uzma says: “We need to flirt with this so that it’s really clear to us that this behavior is wrong. As a generation, we cannot tolerate it.”

“Our parents did. We are not going, we have no reason to go.”

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