Following Kirk's Death, DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

[CousinIT]

https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/

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The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice and hosted on a DOJ website was available there at least until September 12, 2025, according to an archive of the page saved by the Wayback Machine. Daniel Malmer, a PhD student studying online extremism at UNC-Chapel Hill, first noticed the paper was deleted.

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Shortly after Donald Trump took office he issued an executive order that forced government agencies to scrub their sites of any mention of “diversity,” “gender,” “DEI,” and other “forbidden words” and perceived notions of “wokeness.” The executive order impacted every government agency, including NASA, and was a huge waste of engineers’ time.

We don’t know why the study about far-right extremist violence was removed recently, but it comes immediately after the assassination of conservative personality Charlie Kirk, accusations from the administration that the left is responsible for most of the political violence in the country, and a renewed commitment from the administration to crack down on the “radical left.”

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[bigtree]

2. CATO

from Alex Nowrasteh, vice president for economic and social policy studies at the CATO institute :

___Terrorists inspired by Islamist ideology are responsible for 87 percent of those murdered in attacks on US soil since 1975

Right-wingers are the second most common motivating ideology, accounting for 391 murders and 11 percent of the total. The definition here of right-wing terrorists includes those motivated by white supremacy, anti-abortion beliefs, involuntary celibacy (incels), and other right-wing ideologies.

Left-wing terrorists murdered 65 people, or about 2 percent of the total. Left-wing terrorists include those motivated by black nationalism, anti-police sentiment, communism, socialism, animal rights, environmentalism, anti-white ideologies, and other left-wing ideologies.

There isn’t an obvious recent spike in politically motivated terrorism when the outlier deadliness of the 9/11 attacks is excluded from the analysis. The spikes in 1995 and 2016 are from the Oklahoma City Bombing and the Pulse Nightclub Shooting, respectively. Twenty-four people have been murdered so far in 2025, including Kirk.

Terrorism since 2020 paints a slightly different picture. Since January 1, 2020, terrorists have murdered 81 people in attacks on US soil that account for about 0.07 percent of all homicides during that time (estimated for 2025 so far). Right-wing terrorists account for over half of those murders, Islamists for 21 percent, left-wingers for 22 percent, and 1 percent had unknown or other motivations. There are not many politically motivated terrorist killings in the United States.

The number of deaths in politically motivated terrorist attacks is so tiny that any statistical analysis is extremely fragile. However, there is one consistent finding from analyses of politically motivated terrorism: there aren’t many deaths. Thus, their small numbers mean it’s important to intensely analyze individual politically motivated terrorist offenses because the inclusion or exclusion of just a few killers or misclassification makes a big difference in the final tally.

read more: https://www.cato.org/blog/politically-motivated-violence-rare-united-states

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. Because the truth is too painful to behold.

That's why.

[usonian]

4. archive today hates my phone. Try this

What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911012550/https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism

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This is the "secret" report.


A comparison of political violence by left-wing, right-wing, and Islamist extremists in the United States and the world

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9335287/

Get 'em. Save 'em. Before they're forever banned.

Thanks to this substack for the IA link.
https://jpaladino.substack.com/p/kash-patels-doj-scrubbed-study-showing
Kash Patel’s DOJ Scrubbed Study Showing Right-Wing Violent Attacks Outpace All Other Extremism

[Zorro]

5. Down the Memory Hole

[yliza]

6. Of course they did. It doesn't fit their narrative so down the rabbit hole it goes.

It’ll take an entire generation to clean up the mess they’re making.

[raccoon]

8. You got that right.

[calimary]

7. I hope it got saved.

I hope all this “donald doesn’t like” stuff is preserved so we can have it for the record.

I hope for a revisit, post-trump, so all of America can see how it was laid out.

Because, eventually. he’ll be gone. One way or another, he’ll be gone. Just a very well-documented memory that we could all learn from (if that’s even possible, considering all the worshippers he still has).

[littlemissmartypants]

12. It did. It's available as a PDF Download if you'd like to read it.

Download:
https://archive.ph/o/YydjR/https://web.archive.org/web/20250911012550/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/306123.pdf

Here's the attached graphic from the additional page:
Exhibit 1. Missed Opportunities for Intervention and Practical Solutions

[crud]

9. This article is written

like the author cannot fathom why they would remove it...was it DEI? was it something else? we don't know...then finally... "it came after Kirk death".

I guess my question about this is, why was it written this way? Gotta please the corporate editor?

[littlemissmartypants]

13. Everyone is afraid of being sued.

[electric_blue68]

10. Hopefully on a few thumb drives.

[littlemissmartypants]

14. Download

https://archive.ph/o/YydjR/https://web.archive.org/web/20250911012550/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/306123.pdf

[jayschool2013]

11. Liberals

*Liberals and all their counting and statistics and reality and data ... psssh.*

(That was sarcasm)

[Rebl2]

15. Of course

They did🙄

[UTUSN]

16. K&R