The threats, which already closed government offices and caused school evacuations, come as Trump pushes racist lies

The threats, which already closed government offices and caused school evacuations, come as Trump pushes racist lie

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    27·
    2 months ago

    Genuine question: what’s the success rate of catching and prosecuting people who make these kinds of threats?

    I’m guessing it’s either nearly 100% or depressingly low but nowhere in between.

    • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
      401·
      2 months ago

      Much lower if you’re a right wing domestic terrorist like these fucks, that’s for sure.

      Those who work forces…

    • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      181·
      2 months ago

      I’d wager a lot of these people are indeed going to be caught because many are Trump cultists without the slightest clue what words like ‘opsec’ and ‘comsec’ mean. I think the real danger is the already militarized groups like the proud boys and three percenters using the chaos to sneak in their own bullshit. Essentially thanks to Trump riling up his base it’s like a DDOS attack but with terrorists eating up the investigators man-hours instead of a barrage of requests consuming data capacity.

      • Mirshe@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        Yup, this is a pretty well-known tactic, sadly. It’s effectively just paper terrorism - instead of doing the harder work of getting people incited to ACTUALLY kill people or do violence, you get them to do minor shit instead; bomb threats, assaults, etc, and use that as a smokescreen for the people who were already planning to do violence to go do violence effectively unchallenged.