Rocco Parascandola
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — One hundred new NYPD surveillance cameras are being installed in Brooklyn as part of an effort to end a surge in anti-Semitic hate crimes, it was revealed Wednesday.
Four to six extra cops per shift are also being assigned to Borough Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg, neighborhoods with substantial Orthodox Jewish populations.
The extra resources, laid out in City Council document summarizing the NYPD budget needs and planned initiatives, follows a year in which overall hate crimes soared 19%.
Of the 133 bias arrests made last year, 35% involved suspects motivated by anti-Semitism.
The first 30 cameras will be installed this month, the document said, with the NYPD working with community members to identify the best locations for the remaining 70 cameras. Police will also install six new light towers in Borough Park.
The NYPD recently created a new Racially and Ethnically Motivated Extremism unit, dubbed REME, that is part of the Intelligence Bureau and is charged with investigating organized hate groups.