NEXT ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK: FORMER NYPD MICHAEL SETIAWAN

We aren’t using the “White Power Chopping Block” in the headline, because this guy busted on hate crime charges for vandalizing vehicles with anti-Semitic graffiti might not be all that white. Story is still developing.

Daily News

Spray-painted, anti-Semitic messages found in one of Brooklyn’s largest Orthodox communities may have been the hateful work of a former city cop, police said Sunday.

Authorities charged ex-officer Michael Setiawan, 36, with two counts of criminal mischief as a hate crime and aggravated harassment as a hate crime.

A vandal scrawled more than 20 hate-filled messages Saturday against Jews in red spray paint on walls and cars in Borough Park. 

The rants included “F–k you Jews” and “Jews ain’t s–t.” Many of the scrawls were found along Dahill Rd. and 37th St., and 14th Ave. near 38th St.

Surveillance video captured images of a bald-headed man wielding a spray-paint can.

Setiawan was assigned to the 69th Precinct, which covers Canarsie, before leaving the department in 2007, police said. A police source said Setiawan left the force because he was suffering from depression.

Setiawan’s younger brother Erik, a traffic cop, committed suicide in July 2011, cops said. Officers found him slumped over in the front seat of a parked car on Quince Ave. in Flushing, Queens.

A resident on 86th Rd., near the Setiawan family home in Bellerose, Queens, described Michael Setiawan as mentally ill, possibly sick with bipolar disorder.

“He’s got problems,” the neighbor said. “But he’s a good guy. Quiet. Helpful.”

Other neighbors said Setiawan had been going through a public mental breakdown in the last few days.

Some reported seeing him lying down on his stoop, others said they had seen him randomly shadow boxing the air. 

Sunil Sharma said he awoke Thursday with his dogs barking, and walked outside to find his black SUV keyed down the side. 

Sharma, 52 is a livery cab driver and had a TLC inspection the next day. 

Some of the graffiti that was plastered around Borough Park, Brooklyn on Saturday night.

“Luckily with my car there was nothing written on it,” he said. 

Sharma said he kept seeing Setiawan hovering around his driveway on Saturday.

“He would come to my property and then when we would come out he would walk back to his house,” he said. “I did not know that it’s him, but I have a suspicion. Everybody knows everybody on this quiet block. Nobody just goes to somebody’s driveway and does something.”

He said Setiawan’s white Acura 3.2TL had been damaged overnight.

“I knew something was up because yesterday the car was fine,” he said. 

The car was still in the driveway, badly scuffed and dented in multiple places on its left side. An NYPD officer said it was evidence.

Neighbors said he was disruptive in their quiet family neighborhood.

“When he’s out there, we’re scared,” said another neighbor, who did not want her name to be used. “He paces a lot.”

That neighbor said Setiawan had come over on Friday and told her husband that he needed someone to talk to. 

Meanwhile, Jewish community leaders praised investigators for the quick apprehension and warned bigoted behavior wouldn’t be tolerated.

“We have many Holocaust survivors here, many elderly people and children who are appropriately frightened by unprovoked hate attacks upon their schools and community,” said Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Borough Park). “Hate attacks on our community will not go unpunished.”

Borough Park City Councilman David Greenfield said it was “shocking” to learn an ex-cop was being questioned for the sickening crime.

State Senator Simcha Felder (D-Borough Park) echoed Greenfield’s sentiments describing the former officer’s role as “disturbing.”

And Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said he was also filled with disgust.

“Hate is not a Brooklyn value and I repudiate any low-life individual who would spread their prejudiced invective,” Adams said.