Crime & Safety
FBI: No Hate Crimes Reported In Marple Newtown During 2010
The FBI's 2010 Hate Crime Statistics report was released Monday.
More than 6,000 hate crimes were reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2010—including 57 hate crimes in Pennsylvania—but none of those hate crimes occurred in Newtown Township or Marple Township.
The and the reported zero hate crimes in 2010, according to the FBI’s 2010 Hate Crime Statistics report, which was released Monday.
Nationwide, 6,628 hate crimes occurred in 2010, according to the report. Fifty seven of those crimes occurred in Pennsylvania. The FBI's Hate Crime Statistics report saw similar numbers in 2009, with 6,604 hate crimes reported.
In a statement, representatives from the FBI called hate crime investigations “the number one priority in our civil rights program."
“Almost a fourth of our 2010 civil rights caseload involved crimes motivated by a particular bias against the victim,” Eric Thomas, an FBI civil rights chief in Washington, D.C., said in a release. “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.”
The full report is available on the FBI’s website.
