While New York touts itself as the nation’s “safest big city,” anti-Semitic crime jumped 26 percent in 2019, despite the overall crime rate dropping.
WATCH: Anti-Semitic attacks spike in NY, while overall crime hits record low
Police and members of the Guardian Angels volunteer safety patrol organization, in front of the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP /Mark Lennihan)