NYPD Commissioner: 'Disturbing’ Spike in Hate Crimes in the City is a Little More Than an Uptick'

 

By Ryan Sit

The city’s top cop on Sunday suggested that campaign rhetoric over the last year influenced the recent spate of hate crimes across the city.

“The trends are a bit disturbing... We've an uptick in hate crimes, actually a little more than an uptick,” Police Commissioner James O’Neill said on the John Catsimatidis radio show, The Cats Roundtable on AM 970.

“I think there's been a lot of rhetoric over the last months,” O’Neill said.

Hate crimes have spiked by 31%, jumping from 250 incidents at this point last year to 328 as of Sunday, O’Neill said. 

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Source: The New York Daily News