Politics & Government
For 14th Straight Year, Lower Merion and Narberth Report No Hate Crimes
The township last reported incidents in 1996.
Over 6,000 hate crimes were reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2010, but none of those instances occurred in or , according to the FBI’s 2010 Hate Crime Statistics report released Monday.
The 6,628 instances reported nationally in 2010 followed a year of 6,604 such offenses in 2009, according to the Bureau’s statistics.
Representatives from the FBI called hate crime investigations “the number one priority in our civil rights program” in a statement.
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“Almost a fourth of our 2010 civil rights caseload involved crimes motivated by a particular bias against the victim,” said Eric Thomas, an FBI civil rights chief. “We frequently worked these cases with state and local law enforcement to ensure that justice was done—whether at the state level or at the federal level.”
Lower Merion last reported hate crimes in 1996, when one race-based incident and two religion-based incidents occurred. Narberth has reported no hate crimes since the FBI began putting the statistics online in 1995.
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The full report can be found on the FBI’s website.
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