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Worcester police report 9 hate-crime incidents in 2024, below five-year average
Summary
Police Chief Paul Saucier told the Public Safety Committee that Worcester recorded nine hate-crime incidents in 2024 — including five classified as anti-Black — a total below the five-year average. No injuries were reported; some incidents led to criminal charges.
Police Chief Paul Saucier told the City of Worcester Public Safety Committee on May 14 that the department recorded nine hate-crime incidents in 2024, a total below the five-year average of 12.8.
Saucier read the department’s working definition of a hate crime under Massachusetts practice: “a hate crime is defined as any criminal act coupled with overt actions motivated by bigotry and bias including, but not limited to, a threatened attempted or completed overt act motivated at least in part by racial, religious, ethnic, handicap, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation prejudice.” He said the department recorded nine incidents in 2024; five were classified as…
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