NEW YORK (JTA) — New York state police officers must be trained in how to recognize and respond to hate crimes under a new law.
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The bill comes as hate crimes in general — and anti-Semitic incidents in particular — are on the rise in New York City. Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn have seen a string of assaults and vandalism directed at Jews and Jewish institutions.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the measure on Monday. Its chief sponsors are State Assemblywoman Nily Rozic of the New York City borough of Queens and State Sen. Todd Kaminsky of Long Island, both Jewish lawmakers.
“Hatred has no place in New York State and we will continue taking aggressive measures to stamp out hate whenever and wherever it rears its ugly head,” Cuomo said in a statement.
The bill instructs the state Division of Human Rights and Hate Crimes Task Force to develop procedures for training law enforcement to handle hate crimes. It does not detail exactly what the training will entail.
“With the steady surge of hate crimes across New York, there is little room for complacency,” Rozic said in a statement. “This new law will equip local law enforcement with the proper tools to identify, report, and respond to these crimes that continue to divide and instill widespread fear.”
You need a class to figure out that three guys pummeling a chosid and running away without taking his money is a hate crime?
Utter non sense what we need is a city government that supports law enforcement and a mayor that stops playing with crime statistics
Since the democrats like Cuomo and DeBozo blame all hate crime on white supremacists, how will the training help them against the blacks and Hispanics who have been attacking Jews in NY recently
As a former Supreme Court justice once said about pornography I can’t define it but I know it when I see it
Same here the cops know it but are told be superiors to ignore it bad for stats