Obama-era CVE formally asked Muslim communities to police their own members for extremism.

Evidence

In 2014, President Obama unveiled a new program by the Department of Homeland Security called Countering Violent Extremism (CVE). The DHS website outlines the scope of the program, which includes understanding violent extremism, supporting communities that might be vulnerable to extremist ideologies, helping these communities to resist recruitment, and assisting local law enforcement in their efforts to prevent another terrorist attack in the United States. This program encourages Muslim Americans to surveil members of their own communities who may appear suspicious and report them to the government. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 78

Categorization

• XREF: CVE outsourcing of suspicion to the community matches Foucault’s self-surveillance logic and is a case for the MOC thread’s legalization question. — connects to: Liberal inclusive language still frames Muslims only as terror informants — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 664; The NSI institutionalizes citizen participation in racialized surveillance of Muslims — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 474; The CVE program uniquely recruits Muslims as security-state agents.

Related

• The CVE program uniquely recruits Muslims as security-state agents. (similarity 0.87)
• The federal state actively recruits Muslims and social workers to self-police for extremism (similarity 0.84)
• The government actively recruits Muslim Americans to police their own communities for extremism. (similarity 0.84)
• Civil rights groups argue CVE perpetuates Muslim stereotypes rather than preventing extremism (similarity 0.83)
• Obama formally implemented CVE policing as his signature Islamophobic policy in 2011 (similarity 0.82)
• CVE shifted counterterrorism focus from foreign groups to homegrown Muslims. (similarity 0.81)
• Obama’s CVE program rewarded some Muslims while criminalizing dissident ones (similarity 0.80)
• Countering Violent Extremism deputized local police as national security officers (similarity 0.80)
• CVE engagement localized the Muslim-terrorism presumption on police and communities (similarity 0.79)
• CVE policing rewards compliant Muslims and suspects critical ones (similarity 0.79)