This is what happens when you have an out of control government and out of control paramilitary... er... i mean law enforcement. People tend to push back against authority, particularily when its over reaching, prone to over reaction and violence, and harasses people over petty infractions. Its starts to feel likes its us vs them. I feel like this is a bad study, of course locally irritated people are a bigger threat locally than an overseas gang. Here, if you can stomach this shit. U.S. law enforcement agencies rank the threat of violence from anti-government extremists higher than the threat from radicalized Muslims, according to a report released Thursday by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (TCTHS). The report, "Law Enforcement Assessment of the Violent Extremism Threat," was based on survey research by Charles Kurzman, professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and David Schanzer, director of TCTHS and associate professor of the practice at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy. "The data show that we have two distinct, serious, ongoing terrorist threats in the United States," Schanzer said. "Tragic incidents of violence, whether they be in Charleston or the Boston Marathon, tend to exaggerate the magnitude of the threat, but both will require consistent societal and law enforcement vigilance in the foreseeable future." The survey-conducted by the center with the Police Executive Research Forum-found that 74 percent of 382 law enforcement agencies rated anti-government extremism as one of the top three terrorist threats in their jurisdiction. By comparison, 39 percent listed extremism connected with Al Qaeda or like-minded terrorist organizations as a Top 3 terrorist threat. Seven percent of the departments rated the threat from anti-government and other forms of extremism as severe, while 3 percent considered the threat from Muslim extremists severe. Local agencies perceive violent extremism to be more of athreat nationally than within their own jurisdictions. Rural agencies report threats of all forms of violent extremism lower than agencies in mid-size and larger cities. The data were collected in early 2014, before security agencies began noting increased activity and recruitment of Americans by the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS). In follow-up telephone interviews, the officers did not modify their initial responses in light of ISIS threats within the United States. Schanzer and Kurzman wrote about their findings in an op-ed published in The New York Times June 16, the day before the shooting of nine African-Americans in a church in Charleston, S.C. Their research has become part of the national dialogue in the aftermath of the crime. "While public attention focuses primarily on violent extremism associated with Muslims, this horrible crime appears to be drawing public attention to other forms of violent extremism that law enforcement agencies have been concerned about for a while," Kurzman said. The report is the first issued from a larger project that also covers community-outreach programs by law enforcement agencies as a technique for countering terrorism.
Wait a few yrs and depressed teenagers will be the biggest threat as more teens choose a gun in a crowded place over a blade to the wrist
Most Leo's in local jurisdictions have a lot more pissed off citizens to deal with than Muslim extremists. Muslim extremists are a hell of a lot more deadly than US anti-govt extremists but we've done a good job of keeping the Muslim extremists many thousands of miles away from most law enforcement jurisdictions in the USA.
How many local leos actually have encountered such 'extremist' ? Or better yet, how do they define extremists?
Honestly I don't i why I bother She sheeple have voted fir nazi Germany again All I can do is watch as they destroy themselves. -yuri we will have concentration camps in America before gun violence becomes a real.issue -yuri
Although I am very opposed to Muslim extremism, or any extremism for that matter, the Muslims are still a small minority in the United States and do not present a major threat. They've got it good here, and they know it.
At this point look at the amount of people that seem to be consistently gunned down by crazed Americans. By comparison how many successful attacks have been carried out by Muslims. When you compare the two it's very clear that Americans present themselves a greater threat than Muslims do. If we called people shooting up random individuals what it truly is terrorism then maybe people would notice instead of just calling it terrorism when it's Arab people who do it.
I agree that the vast majority of crime and violence in America has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism, and psycho right wing nut jobs such as Dylann Roof are terrorists.
Roof is just a stupid, naive, impressionable punk....I'm sure he's realizing that as well as he sits in jail....
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' >Whenever you hear 'terrorist'or 'extremists' you know there is some mind manipulation going on. </blockquote>Really? Are all "labels" people use to categorize things a form of mind manipulation or just these labels. I find labels to be pretty useful during the course of conversation to clarify ideas and refine thought for the sake of clearer communication. Just Sayin'. Like saying that ten Christians were beheaded by Muslim extremist terrorists tells you that it wasn't your normal run-of-the-mill Muslim that was responsible but the usual murderous scum that has perverted religion as an excuse to perform their sadistic atrocities.