Crime down – but bigot offenses up

CRIME IN the city continued to plummet in November, setting a record low for the month — but hate crimes spiked, spurred by the election of Donald Trump, officials said Monday.

Overall, crime dropped 9.9% in November compared with the same month last year — with 8,194 major crimes reported compared with 9,094 a year ago, officials said.

For the year so far, crime has dropped 3.8% compared with 2015.

But the number of hate crimes more than doubled — with 43 cases in November compared with just 20 in November 2015, NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said.

Boyce said most of the cases were anti-Semitic in nature. Cops have made arrests in almost half of the cases.

“The national discourse has an effect on hate speech,” Boyce said.

At the same time, there were 23 people reported murdered in November, compared with 22 during the same month last year. But officials explained that three of the murders were deaths from cases dating back to 1993, 2003 and 2011 that were reclassified in November as homicides.

“These numbers are extraordinary,” Mayor de Blasio said. “There’s so much for the NYPD to be proud of.”

There were 67 shootings citywide in November compared with 80 during the same month last year — a 16.2% drop.

“Shootings are at a record low,” NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said. “The city’s doing very well . . . . This doesn’t happen by accident.”

There have been a recordlow 936 shootings this year through the end of November, compared with 1,043 in 2015 — a 10.2% drop.

“We are shattering the prior record,” said Dermot Shea, the NYPD deputy commissioner for operations.

The NYPD also said assaults, grand larcenies and auto thefts also declined in November compared with the same month last year.