NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — An in-person community safety training was held in Sunset Park on Saturday as a response to the surge in anti-Asian crimes in the city and nation.
The event was hosted in partnership between The Asian American Federation (AAF), the Academy of Medical & Public Health Services, Inc. (AMPHS) and Nonviolent Peaceforce, a global civilian protection organization.
Sunset Park, whose population is nearly 35% Asian, was the site of the recent subway shooting on April 12 that injured 23 people.
As part of the Hope Against Hate campaign, participants were taught tactics to assess threats to a person's safety, identify ways to respond as an Upstander, and how to practice basic first aid in an emergency situation.
A report from Stop AAPI Hate showed a total of 10,905 incidents of anti-Asian attacks nationwide between March 2020 and December 2021. In New York City alone, the NYPD reported more anti-Asian hate crimes during the first quarter of 2021 than in all of 2020, making the city home to the highest number of assaults in the country.
The amount of physical assaults specifically have increased as well, according to Stop AAPI Hate, which is what made the workshop even more vital. In 2020 alone, 12.7% of incidents recorded in the city involved physical attacks and in 2021, 25.1% of incidents have involved physical attacks.
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