Doxing White Supremacist Violent Crime; Search Tools

Razer g2s at riseup.net
Thu Aug 17 10:05:12 PDT 2017


Lawfare: https://lawfareblog.com/search-data-white-supremacist-violent-crime

> In Search of Data on White Supremacist Violent Crime
>
> By Sarah Tate Chambers
>
> Thursday, August 17, 2017, 12:31 PM
>
> A cursory Google search for statistics on international terrorism,
> including acts committed on U.S. soil by individuals linked to foreign
> terrorist organizations, yields a gold mine. You can sort by group,
> country, or year. Curious about how ISIS prosecutions differ among
> federal districts? There’s data on that.
>
> But attempt to figure out the amount of violent crime committed by
> white supremacists, internationally or domestically, and you’ll find
> yourself sorting through various government documents that are
> incomplete in a number of ways, covering only a small set of offenses
> or failing to label the offender’s ideology with specificity.
>
> Why does this matter? Too often, white supremacists’ violent crimes
> are dismissed as the workings of semi-isolated, but certainly
> contained, individuals—so-called lone wolves. Without comprehensive
> data made available to the public, this characterization is difficult
> to rebut. Public access to this data is essential to full appreciation
> of the breath and severity of this criminal behavior.
>
> In this post, I will explain the data and point out the gaps,
> cataloging what is available from federal and state governments and
> the non-governmental realm, as well as the data that might exist
> despite not being open to public access.
>



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