U) Domestic Terrorists' Contract with System Stakeholders Before Attacks

be assailant communicates an intention to harm a target before committing an attack.1 This communication can vary We sought to advance understanding of what percentage of in timing, level of detail, form, intentionality, and audience.2 the violent extremist population could be “catchable” in the Through such a communication, an individual might directly sense that an individual had been in previou. [...] SYSTEM STAKEHOLDER CONTACT IN DTOLD DTOLD data shows that 61.56 percent (197 of 320) of For example, one study found that 40 percent* of violent the individuals in the dataset had contact with a system extremists had engaged in a crime before their act of extremist stakeholder before committing an act of domestic violence.8 Another study reported differences in system terrorism. [...] The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Justice. [...] Fein and Bryan Vossekuil, “Assassination in the United Guldimann, “Some Warning Behaviors Discriminate Between States: An Operational Study of Recent Assassins, Attackers, and School Shooters and Other Students of Concern,” Journal of Near-Lethal Approachers,” Journal of Forensic Sciences 44, no. [...] Richards, Konstantinos Drakos and Andreas Gofas, “The Devil You Know but “Offender and Offense Characteristics of a Nonrandom Sample of Are Afraid to Face: Underreporting Bias and Its Distorting Effects Mass Murderers, Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry on the Study of Terrorism,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 50, no.