Overview
- Police recorded 31 anti-Jewish hate crimes in January 2026, representing 54% of 58 bias incidents and a 182% year-over-year rise.
- Officials described the statistics as preliminary, with the Hate Crimes Task Force pursuing multiple cases, and the same report noted declines in murders and shootings citywide.
- A driver who rammed his car into Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Crown Heights was arrested at the scene, with police identifying him as 36-year-old Dan Sohail.
- A 17-year-old at a Jackson Heights charter school was taken into custody over an emailed threat to kill Jewish people and faces hate-crime charges.
- Two teenagers were charged in a swastika vandalism case and a rabbi was assaulted on Holocaust Remembrance Day, while the NYPD offered no causal assessment linking the surge to City Hall.