From the Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh:
The Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly deleted a government-funded report about politically motivated terrorist attacks from its website on September 12th (you can verify this yourself). The report’s findings were very similar to my own. See the blurb below:
Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives. A recent threat assessment by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concluded that domestic violent extremists are an acute threat and highlighted a probability that COVID-19 pandemic- related stressors, long-standing ideological grievances related to immigration, and narratives surrounding electoral fraud will continue to serve as a justification for violent actions.
Why did the Trump administration remove DOJ research contradicting their own claims about terrorism while being bombarded with my viral DOJ-consistent research? We’ll just never know.
Regardless, here’s the DOJ report. Happy reading.
Please see the evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_La_Vigne - Nancy LaVigne was the head of the institute where the article in question was drafted. Nancy La Vigne is a criminologist who is the Dean of the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice. In 1991, she received her M.P.A. at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1996, she received her Ph.D. in criminal justice at Rutgers. Her writings include "fostering a more equitable justice system." She "outlined four best practices for encouraging inclusive terminology: be aware, reduce stigma, consider the whole person, and respect preference." Equitable, inclusive, reduce stigma, respect preference - all liberal-leftist buzzwords and phrases. It appears that her biases could have easily slanted the statistics in the study that the current administration deleted. Fr. Gregory, I'm surprised that you didn't do this research yourself before posting an open-ended questioning of the reasons for the study's deletion.
Perhaps the politcal bais of the study from the previous administration muddy the study.