Signing up to be humiliated and put through bootcamp, given a gun, freedom to kill and voluntarily putting yourself in the line of fire is a predictor of extremist violence? I’m gonna have to disagree with you on this one.
This, however, is too general.
Related question: what percentage of current police force are former military?
That propublica piece on that guy that infiltrated 3%ers showed militia actively recruiting police and people in power.
While this is true, that didn’t answer @OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world’s question.
From what I was able to find, it seems that about 25 percent of law enforcement is former military according to this source. However, I am not sure if that means people higher up in the ranks or how much of them actually patrol and are out in the field.
Yeah EOD, specialists, and others going to work in a police or sheriff’s department would count even if their jobs are specialized enough you may not consider them cops in a traditional sense.
You don’t say!
I would suggest that the violence he committed (not counting the suicide obviously) wasn’t extremist, it was pretty close to justifiable.
Edit: Sorry, are people really downvoting me for saying that Pyle killing the drill sergeant was close to justifiable? Have you not seen the movie or did you get the wrong message from it?
Jensen and his colleagues found that while military personnel and veterans are not more likely to radicalize to the point of violence than members of the general public, when service members and veterans do become radicalized, “they may be more likely to plan for, or commit, mass casualty crimes, thus having an outsized impact on public safety.”
Well yeah, they are more dangerous than the average person and it’s not like their mental health care is great, like what did you think would happen?
What you think would happen is the hypothesis. This is the result of its being tested.
Funny (/s) that it jumped sharply shortly after troops started coming home from the war with dogshit mental support for what they’d been put through. Almost like traumatizing people and then throwing them away creates bad outcomes.
Who knew openly calling for the deaths of fellow Americans on hate radio for decades would lead to this? Oh yeah, pretty everyone who understands the garbage the conservatives peddle.
Conservativism is the real predictor.
Hm, behind “not a paywall”, but I wonder if being a cop is any sort of predictor, as well.
And nearly all of those are right wing or religious extremists. So it seems the determinor is vets recruited by extremist organizations.
