FBI failing to address white supremacist violence, warns former special agent

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : In an interview with the Guardian, German said that US law enforcement in general, and the FBI in particular, were lagging behind.
49% : "If there had been an internal FBI report that Isis had infiltrated US law enforcement, you'd expect a nationwide attempt to get to the bottom of it," German said.
47% : The invisibility of white supremacist hatred to law enforcement is reflected in those official figures that do exist.
47% :In 2006 the FBI drew up an internal intelligence assessment that found that "white supremacist presence among law enforcement personnel is a concern".
47% : They know that law enforcement, the FBI included, treat them harshly when they are suspects and ignore them when they are victims."
43% : Michael German, who infiltrated white supremacist groups in the 1990s, says the FBI continues to underplay the scope of the threatThe Federal Bureau of Investigation is failing to address the rising scourge of white supremacist violence despite stark warnings that such attacks pose the greatest domestic terrorism threat in the US, a leading authority on law enforcement has told the Guardian.
43% : It said that organized groups were infiltrating law enforcement agencies, while individuals sympathetic to "white supremacist causes" were also joining the ranks.
39% :"US law enforcement is failing, as it long has, to provide victimized communities like Buffalo's with equal protection under the law.

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