These connected stories, written by a native South African now living in England, turn on just such real or imagined collusions in racial crimes.

As far as is now known, the Central Park attack was not, in the usual sense, a "racial crime."

"It is hate crime and deserves to be taken as seriously as racial, religious and homophobic crime."

Certainly sounds like a racial crime," I said.

Individually the programs refresh our knowledge of dreadful racial crimes that may have been growing hazy in the collective memory.

And the marchers said they were also there to remind others that racial crimes were all too common.

It already is, to a degree, disability hate crimes draw enhanced tarriffs, but not to the same degree as racial or homophobic crimes.

It is among the many racial crimes that Germany's police work long and hard to solve, without result.

The original recommendations of the report called for greater public scrutiny of the Met and a wider definition of racial crime.