Governor Cuomo on Sunday announced a new statewide anti-hate crime force as the city’s top cop suggested the increase in the crimes was caused in part by the rhetoric surrounding the presidential campaign.

“New York is, and will always be, a place of acceptance, inclusion and a bastion of hope for all people,” Cuomo said in a statement.

“We will never allow fear and intolerance to tear at the fabric of who we are.”

The governor has directed New York State police to create a new Hate Crimes Unit to investigate and help local to law enforcement agencies to investigate potential hate crimes.

Cuomo said that some of the investigators have already been involved in cases of swastikas appearing in places around the state.

Meanwhile, NYPD Commissioner O’Neill called the 31.5 percent increase in hate crimes so far this year a “disturbing trend” while appearing on “The Cats Roundtable” radio show on AM 970

“The trends are a bit disturbing,” O’Neill said. “There’s been a lot of rhetoric over the last months.”

The commissioner said that the increase has been “specifically against the Muslim population” and crimes against Jewish people were up as well.