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White nationalist groups are really street gangs, and law enforcement needs to treat them that way

  • Written by Matthew Valasik, Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University

Law enforcement has a classification problem, and it’s making America more dangerous.

For the last two decades, local police and the FBI have categorized the criminal activities of white power groups as isolated incidents or hate-related.

We believe that’s wrong and leads to a lack of understanding of the power of these groups and the...

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