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"New NYPD unit will seek out anti-Semitism before it occurs"
A new police unit will seek out racially motivated extremism before it occurs, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday one day after the anti-Semitic attack in Jersey City that left six people dead.
The mayor announced the unit’s operations during an emotional City Hall press conference on Dec. 11 surrounded by members of the Jewish community, flanked by NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea and his new Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison.
The new unit within the department’s intelligence division, to be known as “Racially and Ethnically Motivated Extremism,” or “R.E.M.E,” will be dedicated to investigating threats from both foreign and domestic neo-Nazi, and white supremacist organizations such as the Aryan Brotherhood, Proud Boys, the White Aryan Resistance to name a few. The 25 member unit will work closely with the detective division’s Hate Crime Task Force and Counter Terrorism division to both track down and prevent attacks by extremists before they occur.
The mayor said the unit started operations in November, but was announced at this time because of the racially-motivated Jersey City attack...
Shea said he is very disturbed by an increase in hate crimes in the city, most especially against Jews in Brooklyn...
De Blasio said they are pursuing three strategies to fight hate crimes through law enforcement, community relations and education. Recently, he formed the Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, calling the problem, “the new normal.”
“We feel a lot of pain but we have to understand why this is an emergency – it confirms the sad truth that there is a crisis of anti-Semitism gripping this nation and in this city, and it has continued to take on more and more violent forms all over this country,” de Blasio said.
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