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(Originally posted on the Charity & Security Network.) The
recent spate of terrorist incidents and arrests involving Americans
has policy-makers and security professionals scrambling to find a
future-seeing Precog to help them identify so-called "homegrown
terrorists" before they act, like in the movie Minority Report.
Several questionable government "studies" on this subject,
including a controversial New York Police Department report, have
promoted a theory of "radicalization" in which would-be terrorists
follow a four-stage path from "unremarkable" and "ordinary" people
into murderous terrorists (see the Brennan Center for Justice's
critique of the NYPD's analysis here). Proponents of this theory
posit that the different stages...
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