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The NYPD struggles to accurately identify, track and communicate data about anti-Asian hate crimes sowing confusion among victims and potentially hindering the department s response to the crisis, a Gothamist/WNYC investigation has found.
As COVID-19 cases rose last year, so too did reports of attacks against Asian American New Yorkers. But police did not consistently tag them as racially motivated, and the NYPD to this day provides conflicting figures about the crisis.
“F–king Chinese coronavirus,” a teenager shouted at a 59-year-old man before allegedly kicking him in the back on Madison Avenue in March 2020.