It’s blue on the Big Apple.
Manhattan, with 199 incidents of bias, led the city to a record increase in hate crimes this year, according to NYPD statistics. Of those, 134 have occurred in the lower Manhattan neighborhood of Midtown, according to Compstat figures through December 12.
Brooklyn was next on the sobering scorecard, with 119 hate crimes, followed by Queens (102), the Bronx (44) and Staten Island (17).
Overall, the city has experienced 514 hate crimes so far this year, up 98% from 260 in 2020, and more than any other year since 2013, when the department began a hate crime count. .
According to detailed NYPD data available for 481 of the crimes, 55 were assaults and 11 were thefts, the data showed.
Harmful crimes against Asians increased the most among all groups, with 131 cases reported in 2021 up from 28 the year before – an exasperating increase of 368%.
But crimes against Jews continued to lead the hate parade, with 191 incidents in 2021, up 49% from 128 in 2020.
“The increase in incidents of anti-Semitic prejudice in our city is unacceptable and our elected leaders must seriously invest in real and long-term solutions,” said Leo Ferguson, director of strategic projects for Jews for racial and economic justice.
“I’ve never seen it so bad,” said Wellington Chen, executive director of the Chinatown Business Improvement District and a resident of Big Apple for 50 years. “We have never been so aware of being Asian. It’s sadness for us… It’s the opposite of what we should be.
Wellington Chen said recent attitudes towards Asians were at a new low. Angel Chevrestt
One of last year’s most gruesome attacks occurred in April, when ex-convict Jarrod Powell was filmed repeatedly beating 61-year-old can collector Yao Pan Ma, in the head in East Harlem, cops said.
The assault left Ma in a coma. Powell, 49, was arrested on April 27, four days after the attack and charged with attempted murder and two counts of assault as a hate crime. He pleaded not guilty.
The pandemic, whose origins have been traced to Wuhan, China, has been an apparent trigger for many unhinged attackers, victims and eyewitnesses have said.
Yao Pan Ma was left in a coma after being brutally beaten.
Earlier this year, a deranged man “came straight out of nowhere, started yelling at me and told me to go back to China and stop bringing the virus here,” said Brooklynite Trung Vuong, a 20 year old Vietnamese man.
“He told me I was not an American and called me all kinds of names – bastard – cursing me,” said Vuong, who did not report the incident to the cops.
Hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation soared 193%, from 29 in 2020 to 85 during the same period this year.
Trung Vuong said he was the victim of a racist verbal attack earlier this year.JC Rice
Anti-white crimes fell from 10 to 20, while possible bias crimes against Hispanics fell from zero to eight the year before. There were 12 anti-Muslim incidents, up from four last year.
There were declines in two categories: anti-black crimes, which fell 14%, to 30 from 35, and crimes motivated by “religion,” down 33% from 12 to 8, reported the NYPD.
BIG APPLE BIAS
Hate crimes in the city have increased 98% this year (514) compared to last year (260).
MOTIVATION/2021/2020
JEWISH / 191/128 ASIAN / 131/28 SEXUAL ORIENTATION / 85/29 BLACK / 30/35 WHITE / 20/10 MUSLIM / 14/4 GENDER / 20/13 RELIGION / 8/12 HISPANIC / 8/0 ETHNIC / 7 / 0 DISABILITY / 0/0
TOTAL/514/260
Source : NYPD
DISTRIBUTION OF DISTRICTS
Manhattan 199
Brooklyn 119
Pure 102
44
States est. 17
Source : NYPD
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