Narberth, Lower Merion keep up years without reported hate crimes

    It’s been 14 years since the last reported hate crime in Lower Merion, and 15 since Narberth reported one.

    FBI stats from 2010 show of the 6,628 hate crimes reported in the U.S. last year, none came from the Main Line communities.

    Narberth-Bala Cynwyd Patch reports three race- and religion-based crimes in 1996 are the most recent hate crimes reported in Lower Merion, and Narberth hasn’t had any since the FBI began publishing the stats online in 1995.

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