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Eric Adams: “We're witnessing for the last six months a 17% decrease in…”

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Conversations with Coleman: Eric Adams on Policing, Politics, and New York City's Future

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We beefed up our hate crime unit not to try to dismiss cases, but to go after after them and prosecute, turn them over to the district attorney, make arrests when needed. And much of what we have done, We're witnessing for the last six months a 17% decrease in hate crimes in anti Semitism, and also decrease in Islamophobia. So we're seeing the work that we're doing. It is actually successful, and we're bringing down those numbers. We want to get to a vision of zero hate crimes. (35:07–35:19)

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Asserts a 17% decrease in hate crimes related to anti-Semitism and Islamophobia over the last six months.

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