Overview
- New York City police will now publish both reported bias complaints and incidents confirmed by the Hate Crimes Task Force after reversing a March move to list only confirmed cases.
- Researchers urged the two-number approach because some true bias incidents never get confirmed when evidence is thin or victims stop cooperating, which can make the problem look smaller than it is.
- March figures showed 73 reported hate crimes with 55 later confirmed, reflecting the side-by-side tallies the department says it will release each month.
- In the first quarter, confirmed hate crimes rose about 11.7% year over year to 143, and 78 of those cases targeted Jewish New Yorkers, accounting for 55% of the total.
- The largest percentage increase was in anti-Muslim incidents, which rose to 12 from 5 a year earlier, as overall major crime fell to record lows including 54 homicides in the quarter.