BELIEVE IT OR NOT, POLICE SAY HATE CRIMES SOARED ACROSS NEW YORK CITY OVER THE PAST YEAR AS ANTISEMITIC ATTACKS SURGED… AND MORE THAN HALF OF ALL CONFIRMED INCIDENTS TARGETED JEWISH RESIDENTS.
New crime statistics released by the New York City Police Department show hate crimes climbing sharply across the city over the course of the past year.
The overall surge was fueled by an increase in antisemitic attacks directed against Jewish people.
The newly published NYPD figures were made public just weeks ahead of the Jewish high holidays.
Those autumn observances include Rosh Hashanah.
They also include Yom Kippur.
According to the department’s statistics, overall hate crimes jumped by 15.8 percent over the past year.
The city documented 425 confirmed hate crimes in 2026.
That total compared with 367 confirmed hate crimes recorded in 2025.
Anti-Jewish hate crimes specifically saw an 8 percent increase over that same timeframe.
Those antisemitic offenses accounted for more than half of all confirmed hate crimes in the city during the first eight months of the year.
Yet Jewish residents make up only about 10 percent of the overall population in New York City.
The offenses reported to police included acts of physical violence.
In July, a Jewish man was stabbed outside of an Upper West Side synagogue.
Such bias crimes continued an upward rise even as the NYPD reported historic declines across major violent crime categories.
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But the city’s overall summer crime numbers pointed in an entirely different direction.
The police department said it had overseen the safest summer ever recorded in the city’s history.
That historical milestone spanned the three-month period from June 1 through August 31.
Over that specific time period, the city experienced the lowest number of shooting incidents in recorded history.
The city also logged the lowest number of shooting victims ever documented over the same summer timeframe.
Murders fell to their lowest total in recorded history over that same three-month span.
The department reported 195 shootings across the city during the summer.
That figure was 32 fewer shootings than the previous record low of 227 established last year.
Police counted 249 shooting victims throughout the summer window.
That was 44 fewer shooting victims than the previous record low of 293 set in 2018.
The city documented 66 murders between June 1 and August 31.
That homicides total was 12 fewer than the previous record low of 78 set in 2017.
Shootings fell to historic lows.
Shooting victims dropped to record numbers.
Murders declined to levels never before seen in the city.
And hate crimes continued to rise.
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