I would be very careful about using any reporting from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has not been fit for purpose for some years now. In addition, you will often find circular confirmation where a Progressive publication cites the same data using different intermediary sources.

The problem with Progressive definitions of "far-right terrorism" is that they are a catch-all for criminal and political violence carried out by non-Hispanic white Americans; if need be, Hispanics are included, such as was the case with George Zimmerman, who killed Trayvon Martin in 2012 (also in Florida). We find that Christian anti-abortion activists are lumped together with pagan white supremacists, neo-Fascists, neo-National Socialists, and radical Libertarians.

In the case of TP/SPLC/ADL, the objective is to inflate the number of law enforcement fatalities. To this end, corrections officers are included, as well as officers murdered at traffic stops and serving warrants. With regard to methodology, if a white supremacist who is also a drug dealer responds violently to a warrant being served, is this an act of "far-right terrorism"? In that case, is every black American who kills a law enforcement officer for whatever reason and under whatever circumstances a black supremacist terrorist if they have any materials on the Nation of Islam or the Black Panther Party?

When we look at data from the FBI's Law Enforcement Officer Killed and Assaulted Program (LEOKA) the following stands out:

  • Black Americans comprised a mean average of more than 39% of assailants of murdered law enforcement officers from 1996 to 2016
  • During this period, black Americans comprised more than 12% and less than 13% of the U.S. population



When we look at data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics' Arrest-Related Deaths Program (ARD) the following stands out:

  • Black American deaths comprised a mean average of 35% of law enforcement homicides for the years 2003-2009, and 2011
  • For comparable LEOKA data, black Americans comprised a mean average of 44% of assailants of murdered law enforcement officers for the same period
  • The ARD data includes both justified and unjustified law enforcement homicides



With regard to terrorism in the United States:

  • Some 229 people have been murdered in the US in terrorist acts after September 11, 2001 to present
  • 127 of these have been murdered during Islamist terrorism (55.46%)
  • 74 of these have been murdered during far-right terrorism (32.31%)
  • 28 of these have been murdered during non-far-right terrorism (12.23%)



Compare these terrorism fatalities to these demographics:

  • 1% of the U.S. population is Muslim
  • 61% of the U.S. population is non-Hispanic white


Thoughts?