By Thomas Tracy and Denis Slattery
A recent rise in bias crimes in the city has drawn the attention of lawmakers in Washington.
Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats are sending a letter to NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill on Monday asking questions about the increase in anti-Semitic crimes across the city and offering help to the city's nascent Hate Crimes Task Force.
Targeted
attacks on Jews — including "Kill all Jews" and other messages scrawled
in a Brooklyn synagogue, a 9-year-old Hasidic boy being sucker-punched
by a stranger and swastikas being spray-painted on the office wall of a
Holocaust scholar at Columbia Teacher's College — led the collection of
politicos to reach out to the city's top cop.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via Empire Report New York)
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