Chair Feliz on hate crime statistics and anti-Jewish trends
Feliz asks about hate crime numbers and trends. Gerber reports that over 50% of confirmed hate crimes are anti-Jewish, a striking trend since October 7, 2023, fluctuating between 50-60% of all hate crimes despite Jews being roughly 10% of NYC's population.
All right, and two final questions.
So on the issue of hate crimes, you know, rapes, hate crimes, and there's just a lot of crimes that, you know, the police department obviously plays a big role, but there's much more that needs to be done.
Obviously, public safety is a shared responsibility.
On the issue of hate crimes, I know education also helps.
But just wondering, can you talk to us about the numbers related to hate crimes there?
Up compared to last year, anything that stands out about those numbers?
These are the confirmed numbers, right?
Any common theme that we see when it comes to...
One second.
Yeah, so, I mean, look, the theme that we have, and this is not new, but it continues, is that over 50% of hate crimes are anti-Jewish, right?
Which is striking.
Again, it's not new to this year, but if you, you know, let's say roughly 10% of New Yorkers are Jewish, but over 50%
of hate crimes, confirmed hate crimes, are anti-Jewish in nature, anti-Semitic in nature.
That is striking.
That is striking.
Again, it's not new.
This is a trend we've seen really now for a few years.
I would say certainly post-October 7th of 2023.
For the past several years, the confirmed anti-Jewish hate crimes has fluctuated, I'd say roughly between 50 and 60 percent.
Of hate crimes in this city.
And that is a really, really striking, striking number.
Okay, and very final question for today's hearing.
Does the NYPD...
All right, so we'll go briefly with Councilmember Wong, and then I'll ask one final question.