by Post Editorial Board

December 8, 2016

 

A funny thing happened after Mayor de Blasio essentially blamed President-elect Donald Trump for “a huge uptick in hate crimes”: Someone looked at the numbers.

It turns out that far more hate crimes were reported in New York City during and after the last presidential election in 2012.

Politico, which asked the NYPD for its figures, says there were 403 incidents then, versus 360 this year through last week. Were Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to blame?

Yes, the city in 2016 has seen a rise over 2015 in reports (not confirmed incidents) of hate-based attacks since Trump’s election, which the mayor sanctimoniously declared is “obviously connected to the election.”

But even that uptick is relative: The 43 reports in the three weeks after the election reflect a 115 percent hike over the same period in 2015. But the NYPD didn’t release data to make a comparison from 2011 to 2012.

 

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http://nypost.com/2016/12/08/cutting-through-the-hate-crime-hysteria/