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Dan Stout, a police officer in Gainesville, Florida, learned to his horror that Richard Spencer was planning a speech at the University of Florida. Stout had no clue who most of these people were, and neither, it seemed, did anyone else in law enforcement.https://nyti.ms/2QfD0fp 

There were no current intelligence reports he could find on the alt-right. The state police couldn’t offer much insight. Whatever the F.B.I. knew (which wasn’t a lot), they weren’t sharing. The Department of Homeland Security had only scant material.https://nyti.ms/2QfD0fp 

White supremacists and other far-right extremists have killed far more people since Sept. 11, 2001, than any other category of domestic extremist.https://nyti.ms/2QfD0fp 

The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism has reported that 71% of the extremist-related fatalities in the United States between 2008 and 2017 were committed by members of the far right or white-supremacist movements.https://nyti.ms/2QfD0fp 

These statistics belie the strident rhetoric around “foreign-born” terrorists that the Trump administration has used to drive its anti-immigration agenda.https://nyti.ms/2QfD0fp 

These statistics raise questions about the United States’ counterterrorism strategy, which for nearly two decades has been focused on American and foreign-born jihadists, overshadowing right-wing extremism as a legitimate national-security threat.https://nyti.ms/2QfD0fp