One month on since violent disorder swept the streets of Middlesbrough
Many people took part in the riots on the 4th of August
We are hearing people are choosing to leave Middlesbrough as they feel unsafe in some parts of the town.
Today marks one month since violent disorder swept the streets on the 4th of August in and around Parliament Road.
The riots saw many homes, shops and cars being vandalised.
Chloe lives nearby and said: "I could see them all gathered around and they were actually going down my street. I was sort of worried because our house was being unguarded and it was on its own. We were worried about whether we were going to get some smashed windows and things like that.
"We witnessed some cars being on fire, a lot of the shops were being looted and it was really awful for us. We actually have a neighbour who's got a bit of dementia and we were worried about her as well, because she doesn't really know much and she likes to come out of the house, so we were worried about her as well.
"We were seeing people being attacked, we witnessed one man who was knocked to the ground and kicked in the face and actually knocked unconcsious. We witnessed people assaulting police officers, community workers and shop workers. We were witnessing them throwing fire bombs and things like that, just destroying the streets that we'd worked so hard to build and make better for the community.
"Our community's stronger than ever. We're always saying 'if you want to start a riot, don't do it in Middlesbrough because we will stand up against it and we'll stop you. We're here to protect the community and to protect our children and if you're going to riot on our streets, where our children are outside playing, we're going to stop you.' It's not what we want our children to grow up in."
This man said: "Tomorrow I'm leaving the town after six or seven years here with my kid because of things happening. Some people came and stole my two cars and damaged the house. We slept last night and I put the sofa behind the door because it's not safe."
Jolande Mace, strategic, cohesion and migration manager leading on hate crime prevention at Middlesbrough Council, said: "If people want to report anonymously then they can do that to me and then I can forward the information of the actual incident to Cleveland Police, but not the details of the reporter and that means it won't be reported as a crime but it'll be logged as an incident, so we're aware that something's happened. It's about maintaining that anonymity for people as well.
"Unfortunately most of it is race-related hate crime. There's been some relating to religion particularly with Muslim communities. The vast majority is race-related hate crime.
"It's absolutely not OK to be victimised because of any of your characteristics. There are people here to listen and there are support services. If you don't feel comfortable to the police then there are other places to go to. You can remain anonymous. We're there to listen and we want to stop this from happening ever again."
Another man said his children are terrified to step out their front door: "They're scared. When they want to go outside they're thinking 'will it happen again?'. We're always telling them that this simply doesn't happen in every country or every community. There's a small portion of people who make the problems so we can't make blame to the rest and all of the people."
Cleveland Police says there has been 111 arrests in total in connection with the disorder in Hartlepool and Middlesbrough as of yesterday (Tuesday 3rd September).
76 have been in Middlesbrough and 35 in Hartlepool.
There has been court sentences so far totalling 35 years and eight months.