Law enforcement, advocates blame politics for increase in hate crimes

Franklin Zimring interviewed by KQED-FM, Dec. 30, 2015

“If you’re a police officer there, and there’s a brick through a Muslim house of worship, then what you have to do is round up the usual suspects. They’re the same people who drink too many beers in bars and will in other situations go off gay-bashing or finding themselves racial minorities,” he said. “Those are essentially thugs taking on different targets because Muslims are in the news.”