Why Is Trump’s Name Invoked in 1 in Every 5 Hate Crimes?

Robert L. McKenzie's in-depth project about anti-Muslim hate crimes was quoted in Oxygen. 

Accurate hate crime statistics can be tough to come by, especially as the FBI’s data seriously underestimates the true extent of the hate crime problem in the United States, and more than half of hate crime victims never report. New America Foundation is keeping track of anti-Muslim activities, and created this database to better understand and evaluate the scope and scale of anti-Muslim activities at the state and local level. Robert L. McKenzie, New America Senior Fellow and director of its Muslim Diaspora Initiative, says the term “hate crime” is problematic because of its inconsistency: “Some states have no hate crime laws on the books.”