By COLlive staff
New York City is seeing a sharp increase in reported hate crimes while shootings, robberies and other crimes are down.
The NYPD said Tuesday that it’s investigated 42 hate crimes through Feb. 4, compared with 19 at the same point last year.
Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea says most of the incidents have been anti-Semitic in nature. Hate-crime statistics include property crimes such as etching or spray-painting swastikas.
Investigators believe one person is responsible for at least 10 of the hate crimes.
Though shootings were down overall, there were 27 homicides in January, compared with 17 in December and 22 in January 2018.
The Crown Heights neighborhood has seen a series of Anti-Semitic violent attacks in recent months.
Attacks included a man attacking a Jewish man with a stick, a man attacked and his glasses broken, and a number of victims violently pushed as they walked on Kingston Avenue.
Most recently, two Jewish men violently beaten and thrown to the ground by a group of three black men.
Joshua Peters, 20, Nazar Walters, 18, and Teshon Bannister, face robbery and assault as hate crime charges in connection with the two separate attacks.
VIDEO: A compilation of recent attacks
Jews make up 25% of the population of brooklyn… vut every district is gerrymandered in A way to make sure jews mak up less than 10 percent of each district… so good luck with that…
The only real action…… is move out…move to a state that has not lost its mind…. yet.
Get a bottle and it can keep away two big bad dudes. With one to two sprays.
The reason why people do is because they were never taught to think about the meaning of the words. So when they just say all these words of davening without thinking, they may be yotze but they aren’t thinking. And people who don’t think will do other things without thought, such as talking. Every person should set a few minutes every day to learn pirush hamilos. Work on that will be much more effective I think, than all the mussar I am seeing everywhere about talking in shul
Correct, though I am not one to judge I think the talking in shul and disrespect to it (Unfortontly we see this a lot in 770) is the source of the problem. The are countless of stories of sudden problem in jewish communities and when they stoped speaking in shul all their problems disapeared.
You are correct
But sadly the tender fragile generation cannot bear the slightest insinuation that we should improve our spiritual condition. They call that instilling inappropriate guilt and responsibility where it doesn’t need to be.
They call that rabbonim’s arrogance and “it’s not their place to say these things” and that it’s “dangerous”.
Yep that is what all the loud outspoken and popular Jewish bloggers have to say.
(It’s also just easier to stick to your free lifestyle and rid yourself of worry and achrayus..)
Hashem help us.
If murder is on the rise it’s because of liberal politicians not Trump who is responsible. Police fear lost by their jobs if they get entangled with criminals. There are special interest groups who thrive on rising anti Semitic attacks like the ADL Anti defamation league who are haters of Trump but raise fifty million dollars a year for themselves and their leadership cronies. They are heavily involved in pushing alternative lifestyles both here and in Israel. They will use crown heights attacks as a means to raise money. Anti Semitic attacks is not on the right we in frum… Read more »
Sorry to break this to you, but our representative do nothing because most CH Jews don’t vote.
Politicians don’t care about constituents who don’t vote.
Soif we cared they’d care.
There are definitely extreme right wing anti-semites also btw! Don’t delude yourself that there isn’t. A Jew can do a certain amount to counteract all this al pi teva, but # 4 is correct a good bit of this requires spiritual rectification from a significant amount of us, that’s the Emes.
Thank our representatives for doing nothing and to our wonderful mayor with the complicity of our leaders. Thank you for nothing, we continue to suffer us a community.
And pretend that these are white-supremacists inspired by Trump when all the footage says otherwise. Antisemites and progressives are very much the same people.
Just finished watching the President’s State of the Union.
Never heard a President honor two holocaust survivors and sing helped sing Happy Birthday to one of them…also referenced Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel and the need to protect Israel from Iran. Very sympathetic to the Jewish community.
Fed Rep Yvette Clarke should ask for federal funding for the community and Mr Slavin should be at the forefront of this.
Why aren’t people fighting back??? i watched a video of this man pushed in broad daylight and the one who pushed walked away casually without a word from onlookers! 🙁
We need to demonstrate in the streets by the thousandsand cause chaos disrupt traffic and normal life in CH until a crackdown on the thugs take place!!
The crime here in CH is definitely out of control. What I find interesting is the fact that in the same time we are also getting seriously beaten by the state of education. And that is not CH only this is a serious issue for out future in the state of NY as well the US. Some other states are joining. London is experiencing the same. Canada is experiencing the same. Belgium is experiencing the same. And the list goes on and on. אין קול ואין עונה. Don’t you think the Creator of the world wants something from us. Isn’t… Read more »
I wish the Rabbis, the CHJCC, and every one of the PAC members can start a Voter Education Program using the Ztzachlist Phonebook in each of the 15 sections previously described for a volunteer CH Patrol.
Three thousand democratic votes will get the funds more grants for Shomrim/Shmira, more police, more cameras for a surveillance grid that will protect all.
Next Precinct Meeting is February 21 , 7:30 PM
IS Middle School 61, Empire Blvd & NY Ave
Everyone should take the course coming to Crown Heights by NDFTraining.com
There are people here trying to provide proper education to the public! We should take advantage and learn! Don’t be a victim! Train to defend yourself!
Im signing up for the course right now!
occurring in Crown Heights! How fortunate we are.