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LGBT hate crimes double in PA

For the first time since 2004, Pennsylvania last year saw an increase in the number of hate crimes committed in the state — with the largest jump being incidents motivated by the victims’ sexual orientation. According to an annual report released this week by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there were 57 total hate-crimes incidents in Pennsylvania in 2010, 10 of which were related to sexual orientation, compared with 46 total crimes the previous year, five of which were motivated by sexual orientation. The increase amounts to a nearly 7-percent spike in LGBT-related crimes between the two years and breaks a six-year trend in which crimes motivated by sexual orientation either decreased or held steady. Click here to read more.
 
 



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