"Community-led work is critical to preventing hate and addressing the conditions that allow bias to take hold. These grants support New Yorkers who are doing the hard, meaningful work of bringing people together, strengthening relationships, and helping build a city where everyone belongs."
"Our office receives the data from the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force, and that raw data shows the hate crimes as reported to NYPD. Those are people who actually went to the precinct and said they wanted to file a report. We know that different communities have different cultural perspectives when it comes to NYPD or law enforcement. We know there are language barriers, access barriers, and people's age where they don't go to the police to report."
The NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes and Commission on Human Rights distributed grants up to $10,000 to 12 winners focused on combating discrimination and bias at the grassroots level. Winners included nonprofit providers and individual New Yorkers as young as 15, with many proposals emphasizing arts-based approaches. Hate crime prevention extends beyond arrest statistics, as significant underreporting occurs locally. Last year, only 46 of 580 NYPD-recorded incidents were classified as anti-Black hate crimes, despite the New York area having the nation's largest Black population. Anti-Black hate crimes nationally outpace other bias categories over five years. The grants aim to address root causes of racism and discrimination before escalating to violence, filling gaps where current hate crime statutes fall short.
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