\u201cEvery New Yorker deserves to live free from fear and hate. As antisemitic incidents and other hate crimes continue to threaten our communities, it is critical that prosecutors have the resources they need,\u201d Speaker Menin said in a statement. \u201cThe City Council is proud to provide this funding.\u201d <\/p>\n
The allocation follows testimony from Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez during an April 22 hearing of the Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, where he said the borough\u2019s Hate Crimes Bureau had significantly fewer resources than similar units in other DA\u2019s offices. <\/p>\n
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City Council Speaker Julie Menin said supported the funding boost, saying that \u201cevery New Yorker deserves to live free from fear and hate.\u201dPhoto by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n
According to Gonzalez, the Brooklyn DA\u2019s Office had received<\/a> only $50,000 from the previous administration to address all hate crimes, while other boroughs receive \u201cin excess of a million.\u201d Brooklyn also has the largest Jewish population in the country.<\/p>\n \u201cI asked for $1.5 million to fund the dedicated Hate Crimes Unit that would be funded like the Manhattan DA\u2019s office or the Queens DA office. I think the people of Brooklyn deserve to be funded with a dedicated unit,\u201d Gonzalez testified on April 22.<\/p>\n Following the hearing, Council Member Inna Vernikov<\/a>, who co-chairs the task force and represents southern Brooklyn\u2019s 48th Council District, advocated for additional funding for the bureau. <\/p>\n \u201c[Mayor] Mamdani found $200 million in funding for BHRAGS, an organization under federal indictment, but failed to fund Brooklyn\u2019s Hate Crimes Bureau, despite a 74% citywide rise in hate crimes, more than half of them targeting Jews,\u201d said she said, referencing NYPD Hate Crime Data. <\/p>\n Vernikov also pointed to a recent violent attack in Manhattan<\/a> as underscoring the need for additional resources. On July 23, two men, including a 50-year-old Jewish man, were stabbed in the chest. The perpetrator allegedly shouted \u201cAllahu Akbar.\u201d The prime suspect, Raul Morales, was charged<\/a> with \u201cattempted murder and committing a hate crime in the process\u201d the next day. <\/p>\n \u201cWith the news of the stabbing last week of an Asian-American and a Jewish-American on the Upper West Side, this funding is especially critical and timely,\u201d Vernikov added.<\/p>\n Gonzalez thanked both Menin and Vernikov for helping to secure the funding, saying it will expand the bureau\u2019s ability to investigate hate crimes, support victims and build stronger relationships with impacted communities. <\/p>\n \u201cThis investment will allow us to expand our work, strengthen specialized training, and engage more proactively with communities targeted by hate so that we can prevent harm, support victims, and hold offenders accountable,\u201d Gonzalez said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn District Attorney\u2019s Office will receive a $750,000 funding boost for its Hate Crimes Bureau after borough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3862,117156,32486,113363,98,100,99,301,2025,86340,303,2184,5533,2969,19077,68640,45893,610,267,9,24,117157,370,63,87],"class_list":["post-309760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-antisemitism","tag-bk","tag-borough","tag-brc","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city-council","tag-community-news","tag-council-member-inna-vernikov","tag-crime","tag-development","tag-eric-gonzalez","tag-funding","tag-julie-menin","tag-kc","tag-kings-county","tag-local","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news-brooklyn","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/C8211A79-D3F9-4190-B18B-ACFE31D82E4A_970b9e.webp\")
Raul Morales, 51, is the alleged perpetrator in last week\u2019s violent assaults, one of which was listed as an antisemitic hate crime.Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n