Mayor Eric Adams boasts 40 percent drop in NYC hate crimes

Mayor Adams informed the college that he's going to "transfer this metropolis in the proper course."
Diane Cohen

Mayor Eric Adams informed members of a Manhattan synagogue on Saturday that hate crimes dropped by 40 p.c citywide final month, insisting he’s nonetheless a cop at coronary heart whose administration has made combating antisemitism a prime precedence.

Throughout a 15-minute speech at Park East Synagogue in Lenox Hill, the retired NYPD captain cited new Police Division information exhibiting there have been 40 reported hate crimes within the Large Apple final month — a 40 p.c decline from 67 in April 2021.

It’s a big swing following the primary three months of the 12 months, which noticed reported hate crimes rise from 96 to 142, or 48 p.c, in comparison with the identical interval in 2021, in accordance with NYPD data.

“I get it that you just’re involved in regards to the antisemitism that has swept the whole world,” the mayor mentioned. “We're going to transfer this metropolis in the proper course.”

Earlier than Adams addressed the gang, the synagogue’s President Herman Hochberg inspired members to “converse up and never be silent” about anti-Jewish crimes.

“A lesson was discovered throughout World Warfare II,” mentioned Hochberg, clearly referring to the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. “We didn’t converse up sufficient.”

Mayor Adams visits Rabbi Arthur Schneier Park East Day College on Could 14, 2022.

Diane Cohen

Adams – who's pushing for extra crimes to change into bail eligible — spent a lot of his speech addressing his administration’s need for enhancing general public security in addition to calling on the general public to help cops reasonably than “defend the unhealthy guys.”

“What we're doing to law enforcement officials within the metropolis is despicable,” the reasonable Democrat mentioned. “Women and men who've positioned themselves in hurt’s method.”

“I'm nonetheless the police officer” who's “answering requires service,” he mentioned.

Adams informed the attendees that there have been 40 reported hate crimes final month, a 40 p.c decline from the 67 in April of 2021.

Diane Cohen

Nevertheless, some members of the congregation weren't impressed, saying they anticipated Adams to spend extra time particularly addressing antisemitic and different hate crimes.

“The speech might have been extra pertinent to the problems of anti-Semitism, that are prevalent within the metropolis at the moment,” mentioned a peeved synagogue member.

“He claims anti-hate crimes have gone down, however we don’t really feel it.”