A month after changing the way it reports hate crimes, and only including “confirmed” ones rather than those still being probed, the New York City Police Department made another change in early April and now reports both “confirmed” and “reported” hate crimes.
Jessica Tisch, the NYPD commissioner, said on April 2 that the new, dual set of statistics was her decision, and not that of Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City. Mamdani is a frequent and harsh critic of Israel, and the city recorded a 182% increase in anti-Jewish hate in January, the first month of his mayoralty and the month before the city stopped reporting “reported” crimes.

The city’s reporting, even with the new dual format, requires residents to do their own math to understand how much anti-Jewish crimes are going up year-over-year in the city.

According to an NYPD hate crime dashboard, there were 63 “confirmed” incidents in the city, 36 (57%) of which targeted Jews, in March 2025. Two incidents (3%) targeted Muslims. JNS reported in April 2025, citing NYPD data at the time, that 31 (54%) of 57 incidents in the city in March 2025 targeted Jews according to one city source and that according to another, 39 (58%) of 67 incidents in the city targeted Jews.