NJAC Asks DOJ to Open a Pattern-or-Practice Investigation into NYC's Antisemitism Response
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June 23, 2026
Patrick McCarthy
Acting Chief, Special Litigation Section
Civil Rights Division
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20530
Re: Request for a Pattern-or-Practice Investigation under 34 U.S.C. § 12601 into the City of New York’s Discriminatory Failure to Protect Jewish Residents from Antisemitic Hate Crime
Dear Mr. McCarthy:
The National Jewish Advocacy Center writes to request that the Civil Rights Division open an investigation, under its pattern-or-practice authority at 34 U.S.C. § 12601, into whether the City of New York and the New York City Police Department are denying Jewish New Yorkers the equal protection of the laws by failing to protect them against a documented and severe wave of antisemitic violence. The predicate is not in dispute, because the City supplies it. By the NYPD’s own count, Jewish New Yorkers were the victims of 330 reported hate crimes in 2025, 57 percent of every hate crime recorded in the city, against a Jewish population that is roughly one New Yorker in ten. That’s more than six a week. This referral asks the Division to answer why the City’s response to that record runs in the opposite direction from the data.
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