Reported terrorist attacks fell below 1980s levels by the early 2000s
Evidence
However we interpret the upward spurt of 2004, the 208 attacks of 2003 lie far below the frequencies of the 1980s, when the numbers rarely fell below 500 reported terrorist attacks per year. Overall casualties fluctuated more from year to year than did number of attacks, but deaths generally declined as well from the 1980s onward (Enders and Sandler 2002). — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 878
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 878
- XREF: connects to: Global terrorism actually declined steadily from its 1987-88 peak until 2004 — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 858; US terrorist attacks declined sharply from 1970 to 2011 — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 49; Methodological changes and the Iraq war jointly explain the jump in reported terrorist incidents — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 852 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Global terrorism actually declined steadily from its 1987-88 peak until 2004
#corroborates(0.95) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 858 - US terrorist attacks declined sharply from 1970 to 2011
#corroborates(0.82) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 49 - Methodological changes and the Iraq war jointly explain the jump in reported terrorist incidents
#qualifies(0.80) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 852 - Terrorism lacks a universal definition and barely anchored major indices
#complicates(0.78) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1491 - Racist terror resurged in the 1980s as the Klan tripled membership
#complicates(0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 27