Countering Violent Extremism deputized local police as national security officers

Evidence

Los Angeles was not only ground zero for a range of xenophobic policies targeting undocumented (and documented) Latinx communities, but also a pilot city where, in 2014, the Department of Homeland Security launched its counter-radicalization program, Countering Violent Extremism, in partnership with the Los Angeles Police Department. This new counterterror program, which effectively supplanted the federal surveillance model ushered in by the USA PATRIOT Act, deputized LAPD members to function as national security officers tasked with identifying, detaining, prosecuting, and even deporting “homegrown radicals.” Suspicion was disproportionately assigned to recent Muslim converts, particularly young men like Juan, keen on expressing their newfound Muslim identity by wearing a beard, attending Friday prayers, and demonstrating fluency in Arabic—the language tied to Islam, and in line with Islamophobia, terrorism. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 66

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to Selod’s surveillance work and the reader’s interest in the state apparatus of Islamophobia. — connects to: Counterinsurgency is politico-military while antiterrorism is policing-oriented. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 278; Militarized manhunting combines warfare and policing into a new state violence — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 164; CVE engagement localized the Muslim-terrorism presumption on police and communities — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 328 (+7 more)
• SEED: The CVE program as a case study of counterterrorism displacing the PATRIOT Act surveillance model would make a strong analytic essay.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 66

Broader Connections

• The War on Terror legitimizes expanded police repression at home #expands (0.65)
• Structural Islamophobia operates through laws and policies that presume Muslims threaten national security #exemplifies (0.55) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 123
• The NSI institutionalizes citizen participation in racialized surveillance of Muslims #expands (0.50) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 474
• Covert framing of Muslim surveillance as anti-terrorism suppressed public protest #corroborates (0.40)