182% rise in Jew-hate crime in NYC

While the NYC Police Department was reporting its safest January for gun violence in recorded history, it also noted that antisemitic hate crimes were up 182% in the city in January 2026 compared to January 2025.

Overall, the NYPD hate crimes task force investigated 152% more incidents last month (58) compared to January 2025 (23), including 31 anti-Jewish hate crimes last month compared to 11 in January 2025. The antisemitic hate crimes “accounted for more than half of all the hate crime incidents in January,” the NYPD stated.

According to NYPD statistics, there were seven anti-Muslim incidents in January in the city, compared to zero in January 2025.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch stated that “for the first month of the year, the women and men of the NYPD delivered the fewest shooting incidents, victims and murders in recorded history.”

“These results show that this department remains focused on building on the historic public safety gains made last year. Our strategy is simple: don’t just get tough on crime, get smart,” Tisch said. “Deploy the best police officers in the nation to get it done and make New York safer.”

NYPD also said that retail theft was down 16% in January due to what it said was its “data-driven strategy” and that “school safety zones reduced overall crime by more than 50%.”

Reported rapes (167) were much higher in January that in prior years, including 2025 (157), 2024 (106), 2023 (135), 2022 (132) and 2021 (101), per the NYPD.