1、 Sifting Domestic Terrorism from Hate Crime and Homegrown Violent Extremism Updated January 15, 2021 In light of the violence related to events over recent years, including the 2017 protests in Charlottesville, VA, 2020 protests across the nation related to policing practices and police-community re
2、lations, and 2021 security breach of the U.S. Capitol, policymakers may be interested in how the concepts of domestic terrorism, hate crime, and homegrown violent extremism compare with one another. They are fairly distinct ideas that federal law enforcement agencies use to categorize certain types
3、of individuals whose unlawful actions are at least partly ideologically motivated. Domestic Terrorism Domestic terrorism differs from other criminal activity in key ways. Importantly, unlike most offenderswho may be driven by self-centered motivesdomestic terrorists are driven by a cause or ideology
4、. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the agency with lead responsibility for terrorism investigations at the federal level, generally relies on two definitions of domestic terrorism. First, the Code of Federal Regulations characterizes terrorism as including “the unlawful use of force and vi
