But rather a reminder that the overt race discrimination that led to his death has been perpetuated across the decades and still lives with us today. This is why episodes of Stephen should be viewed not just as an important historical event. And the real figure is likely to be much higher as many incidents go unreported. for the birth of his son Aiden and little two-five the morning after. Police recorded 76,070 race-hate crimes in this period вЂ“ a 6% increase on the previous year. Watch live and get minute-by-minute updates as the Oilers visit the Winnipeg Jets. And from 2019 to 2020, about three-quarters of all hate-crime offences were related to race. Only a few months ago, EnglandвЂ™s black football players representing their country in the recent Euro competition were targeted on social media with racial prejudice because they were black. But you only have to cast half an eye to Twitter and other social media sites to find overt racial prejudice. So for viewers watching the new ITV series, the events of 1993 and the racial prejudice and discrimination that led to Stephen LawrenceвЂ™s death may be seen as an event lodged and preserved in the past. This is when the institutional memory of race is at play вЂ“ and it is something that many white officers are unaware of. I call this the вЂњinstitutional memory of raceвЂќ and it brings the past into the present when officers encounter or hear about race prejudice or discrimination.Д®very industrial tribunal вЂ“ there have been many вЂ“ when a black officer calls a chief to account every report about racialised differences in discipline hearings every resignation with discriminatory overtones. AlamyДЇor black British people, especially serving black police officers, the history of race discrimination within and outwith constabularies lives on. The Parents of Stephen Lawrence, Neville and Doreen, pictured in 1999. The legacy of his murder demands something far, far stronger. In my experience, there is a real inability to understand the dynamics of race within policing, and many chief officers only have a passing interest in engaging with issues surrounding race. They worry about getting things wrong and being called вЂњracistsвЂќ. Indeed, some police chiefs are reluctant to accept a national policy, preferring their own local approach. The National Police Chiefs Council does not have a policy about racial prejudice and discrimination. Instead, they have diversity and inclusion policies that include a watered-down idea of race as if it is the same as gender, sexuality and disability вЂ“ and they pay far less attention to race than to sexuality and to gender. As I write this article I know that hardly any forces have a distinct race policy. I have been researching police race relations for more than 30 years. It was and remains the concerted campaigning of StephenвЂ™s parents that probed and to some extent revealed the truth of what happened when the Metropolitan Police investigated their sonвЂ™s murder. This racial motivation was something the officers working on the case and, perhaps even more extraordinarily, senior officers who investigated subsequent complaints by his parents, refused to admit. Stephen Lawrence (left) with his brother Stuart.

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