by jpitney | Jun 1, 2024 | Public Service, Terrorism, Violence
From the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point: Rising Threats to Public Officials: A Review of 10 Years of Federal Data, by PETE SIMI, GINA LIGON, SEAMUS HUGHES, NATALIE STANDRIDGE: Abstract: A review of federal charges for the past decade highlights that the...
by jpitney | May 28, 2024 | Public Service, Terrorism, Violence
Graig Graziosi at The Independent: Four secretaries of state said they’ve received death threats for doing their jobs — namely overseeing elections — since Donald Trump left office in 2021. During an interview on Meet the Press on Sunday, Arizona Secretary of...
by jpitney | Jan 9, 2024 | Public Service, State Government, Violence
Sarah Ellison, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Patrick Marley at WP: On Wednesday, bomb threats forced evacuations, closures or stepped-up security measures at more than a dozen state capitols,in...
by jpitney | Dec 31, 2023 | Civility, Congress, Donald Trump, Violence
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) in NYT: Mr. Trump’s style of politics — the disrespect, prejudice, name-calling and malice that too often get swept aside as his just calling it as he sees it — makes healthy debate and discussion virtually impossible. The word “congress” by...
by jpitney | Dec 26, 2023 | Congress, Staff, Violence
From the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: The increased level of political violence that members of Congress fear and experience today has emerged as a common thread across political party affiliations in an extensive new survey of nearly 300 former members of...
