According to an analysis presented by The Washington Post and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the domestic terrorist plots and attacks in the U.S. have reached their highest rates recorded in the last 25 years, reported The Hill.
As a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization the CSIS have specialized in national security issues and is monitoring extremism since 1994. Since 2015, there have been 267 plots or attacks with 91 casualties, and the most of them came from the far right. There are 66 incidents made by far left extremists that led to 19 fatalities.
CSIS has recorded nearly 1000 incidents in total since 1994. In 2020 there were 73 incidents committed by far-right extremists which is an all-time high record.
Reporters wrote that given the fact that is hard to determine whether some attack is left or right, The Post uses sources of information like social media posts, attackers’ court records, news accounts and other material from local, state and federal law enforcement authorities to “refine the type of extremism involved in each case.”
Most of the attacks occurred on religious objects of the Black community, with churches being attacked and vandalized at least 15 times for the last six years. The attack on the New Shiloh Christian Center in Melbourne Fla. was one of the more significant, with the church being set on fire three times in 2015 and there were no suspects.
“What is most concerning is that the number of domestic terror plots and attacks are at the highest they have been in decades. It’s so important for Americans to understand the gravity of the threat before it gets worse,” said the director of CSIS database project Seth Jones.
“January 6 was not an isolated event. The problem of domestic terrorism has been metastasizing across the country for a long time now and it’s not going away anytime soon,” Christopher A. Wray the FBI Director told the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 2.
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