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In reply to the discussion: I'm gonna say it: I think cops could have been shot by RW agitators [View all]Lurker Deluxe
(1,085 posts)Everything you refer to goes back to the same report, which is a survey of the apparent threat of various group.
Let's look at the report you are so obsessed with.
First thing.
"web-designed survey to two separate groups of law enforcement personnel"
"first group included individuals who had attended training through the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism"
"second group consisted of individuals who had received training from the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. Funded by the Department of Homeland Security"
So, anyone who had taken this survey had to have attended special training covering the specific threats of specific groups as determined by that curriculum. I am sure they trained a lot of people though. Right?
"operated from 2005 until 2011 with over 4,500 officers"
Well, not really.
The thing you keep referencing is not a statistical evaluation of actual crime, it is a survey of 374 LOE persons, which represents less than 1/16 of 1 percent of LEOs nationwide, and all of the people taking the survey had been through classes telling them who the threat is.
And, less than 67% of those responses were from "sworn" LOE agents. So, answering questions that are answered with: strongly agree/agree/nuetral/disagree/strongly disagree the testers managed to say with a 3.2 out of possible 5 that Sovereign Citizens was a threat. With 52% agreeing and 34% strongly agreeing.
If you take that report to heart and consider Sovereign Citizens as 3.2, than Extreme Environmentalists are 78% the threat at 2.51 ... which is just absurd. But hey Black Nationalist sit at 2.34 or 73% as dangerous as SovC. Again, absurd. But hey ... Extreme Animal Rightists top both of those with a 2.54 rating.
Your initial claim was that these RW groups are killing the majority of police, and you cite this junk report as proof.
Sorry ... you are just wrong. And this report you keep using to push this is garbage.