Today marks the start of National Hate Crime Awareness Week, and police are planning to be out in full force to show solidarity with people affected.
The week encourages victims, and anyone who knows of such incidents, to report them to the authorities.
It aims to highlight crimes such as anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and more. "These incidents may involve a physical attack, damage to property, bullying, harassment, verbal abuse, insults or hate mail," police say. "Officers will be in attendance at various locations across London including synagogues and mosques and gay clubs to listen to concerns." It comes as stats reveal disability hate crime offences have sadly risen by a shocking 117.1 per cent (from 228 to 495) in the last 12 months.
Islamophobia has risen by 64.8 per cent in the last year, while homophobic hate crime has seen a risen by 12.9 per cent in the last year.
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