FBI director testifies on Capitol Riots: Opportunities for National Improvement in Thwarting Future Extremism

This is going to be interesting. Radical ideology can be anywhere. It can be overseas and it can be in the U.S.. We must change our lens and implement a new strategy if we are going to tackle this at its more fundamental levels (in our neighborhoods and towns). One of the problems is that national leadership seems to know all the answers without asking the right questions. 

Ranking member Mr. Grassley indicates they need data on extremism information and percentages but there is no real way to track without coding the information properly for researchers to understand. Universal Justice means we use the same kind of lens for hate and extremist behaviors in general. Seeing Jihadist, White Supremist, or any other type of extremism has the same fundamental root causes.

I think FBI Director Christopher Wray did a pretty good job with is answer by indicating that the ideology encourages violence or breaks federal law they want to go after it. It is hard to turn raw intelligence into meaningful results quickly in a way that leads effective decision-making. 

The problem we still face is that most of these behaviors are underreported and we don't know its extent. If they don't know about it, they can't do anything about it. These behaviors happen all the time, but they are often put in the context of other crimes (i.e. property theft, etc...). Associated crimes must be tagged to categorize, cross analyze, run statistics, put into meaningful reports, etc..

Most of the agencies that are partnered with the Federal Government to report hate crimes haven't had much reporting. This indicates that local departments are not understanding, coding, or taking seriously hate crimes. While it may or may not be intentional, it does create a serious problem for finding solutions and/or restoring institutional trust. 

Important Point: If you notice how the nation discusses these issues over the past few years (decades, etc..) we begin to gain a deeper understanding of why/how socio-political movements are occuring.

One possible strategy Michigan could consider is to put in place a system of uncovering and labeling lower level way correctly...

Opportunities for Hate Crime Reform Michigan-Better Coding and Better Solutions

Of course matching that information with other sources of information leads to greater understanding of what is happening before it happens. 

Hate on Social Media-Are Current Michigan Laws Adequate?