As hate incidents have reportedly increased, Delaware County Council unanimously voted to pass a resolution on Wednesday denouncing hate crimes.
The Anti-Defamation League reported Pennsylvania overall saw a 65 percent increase in antisemitic incidents of assault, vandalism, and harassment in 2022.
Additionally, Pennslyvania State Police said Pennsylvania has had an increase in hate crime in 2021, with 255 incidents reported. Delaware County Council noted in 2021 the Federal Bureau of Investigation raised civil rights violations, including hate crimes, to its highest-level national threat priority.
The new resolution calls for stricter hate crime laws in Pennsylvania to prevent the continued surge of hate crimes.“We can no longer sit silently,” Delaware County Council Member Richard Womack said in a statement. “We all know that hate crimes do exist, and we must be outspoken, and we must call that out, and that is what we are doing here today."
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