'According to some newspapers today, the crime rate in New York has increased slightly in the past few days. New Yorkers are nothing but a group of criminals.' Which fallacy has been made in the above statement?

The statement commits a hasty generalisation.

It begins from a small, recent report of a slight rise in crime.

From this narrow sample it leaps to a sweeping claim about all New Yorkers.

A tiny, unrepresentative basis cannot support a judgement about an entire population.

Drawing a broad conclusion from insufficient evidence is precisely hasty generalisation.

The error lies in the jump from a scanty instance to a universal verdict.