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14 Am. J. Police 71 (1995)
The Future Terrorists in America

handle is hein.journals/ajpol14 and id is 415 raw text is: American Journal of Police, Vol. XF No. 3/4 1995 71 THE FUTURE TERRORISTS IN AMERICA Joseph R. Carlson University of Nebraska at Kearney DOMESTIC TERRORISM IN THE 1990s In the United States we have witnessed an international terrorist attack that shocked our nation into realizing that we were not invulnerable to terrorist actions. That event was the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City on February 26, 1993, in which six individuals were killed and an estimated 1,000 others injured. Due to the media coverage of that single event, most Americans were shocked about our vulnerability and the potential damage which terrorists can cause. Chiefs of police in American cities reviewed their counter-terrorist and emergency disaster plans to ensure they would be ready in the event they were next on the target list. However, with most of the media's emphasis on Middle Eastern terrorists, little has been reported on the potential of home grown domestic terrorist groups. Those individuals responsible for the security of our largest cities have not been asked who the most dangerous potential terrorist groups within the United States might be. Nor have chiefs of police been provided with analyzed projections of who their peers perceive as the key players in terrorism within the United States during the next two years. This paper will look at the self-reported perceptions of chiefs of police in a majority of American cities with a population of over 100,000 persons. It will identify, both by region and on a national basis, those internal domestic groups that have the greatest potential for terrorist violence within the next two years. Hopefully, this information will better inform police departments of where future domestic violence will be