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>>itcrow+(OP)
> Stewart Baker, an attorney at the Washington, D.C. office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP and a former assistant secretary of policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said the BlueLeaks data is unlikely to shed much light on police misconduct, but could expose sensitive law enforcement investigations and even endanger lives.

But then there was this: https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek/status/1273329710576152581

>>CiPHPe+E2
far-right extremist terrorism greatly outranked radical wahabbi/salafists and similar in 2018/2019, domestically, in the USA:

https://www.csis.org/analysis/rise-far-right-extremism-unite...

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/reports/201...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/03/world/white-e...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/homegrown-...

>>walrus+43
I see that first link kind of buried the lede in footnote 2: " The number of casualties from attacks by Islamic extremists has been greater than by right-wing extremists, largely because of a few cases like Omar Mateen’s Pulse nightclub attack that killed 49 people and wounded 53 others."

So right wing terrorism is a greater threat, unless you are worried about being killed.

>>gadder+V3
If you are killed it doesn't matter how many others died with you. I personally tend to be more worried about things that happen often and are widespread, than things that happen seldom and are more localized.

But if asked "Are you more worried about right wing or islamist extremists?", my answer is "Yes".

>>Swenre+O4
My concern from a priority and law enforcement perspective is that in the post-9/11 world, a great deal of funding and effort was put towards deterring and combating the latter.

Whereas something that is well known and homegrown in the USA (Timothy McVeigh, anyone?) has had a much lower level of concern assigned to it until very recently.

>>walrus+X4
> Timothy McVeigh

Who did he work with again?

>>ta1771+ba
He had a couple of accomplices, but he was radicalised by the Waco fiasco and linked to what these days would be called the "milita movement".

>>pjc50+Td
And the even bigger fiasco of Ruby Ridge.

>>gadder+Qf
So I had to refresh myself on the details of this via wikipedia, and with a 2020 eye it seems almost like the white version of complaints about police brutality per BLM.

- victim becomes a martyr despite being "no angel" (Weaver was a white supremacist, dealing in illegal firearms)

- initial involvement of law enforcement is entrapment (undercover ATF agents)

- lies by law enforcement ("the ATF filed the gun charges in June 1990. It claimed that Weaver was a bank robber with criminal convictions.[27] (Those claims were false: at that time Weaver had no criminal record. The 1995 Senate investigation found: "Weaver was not a suspect in any bank robberies.")

- basic cockups (court date mixup)

- absurdly long quasi-siege

- significantly lighter treatment and more investigation than similar fiascoes for nonwhite people (e.g. Breonna Taylor); the 2020 version of this would probably have just been to drive a MRAP through the shack and use the return fire as sufficient justification for the killings (see e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/08/31/actor-steve... )

- they shot the dog. They always shoot the dog

- attempt to prosecute sniper is met with sovereign immunity, case is dropped