DOJ Quietly Deletes Study Showing White Supremacy Outpaces All Extremism
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The Department of Justice has quietly removed a recent study from its website that documented the scale of white supremacist violent extremism in America.
According to PEOPLE, the 2024 study, titled “What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism, no longer appeared on the DOJ’s Office of Justice Programs website as of Friday (September 12), just days after conservative figure Charlie Kirk was fatally shot.
The opening lines of the study highlighted how white supremacy is outpacing all forms of terrorism and extremism in the U.S.
“Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far‑right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism,” the study reads.
The study also reported that “since 1990, far‑right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far‑left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives.”
According to 404 Media and multiple archived snapshots, the report was still available on Thursday (September 11). On Friday, the links to both the page and PDF redirected, and the content could no longer be accessed via the DOJ site.
The removal came days after Kirk was shot at Utah Valley University on September 10. The study contradicts recent statements made by senior Trump administration officials about the alleged threat of left-wing extremism in the wake of Kirk’s death.
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