The NYPD radicalization theory equated growing piety with growing terrorist risk.
Evidence
The NYPD’s program depended on a theory of radicalization elaborated in its 2007 report, Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat. The report spells out four stages of radicalization: preradicalization, self-identification, indoctrination, and jihadization. Descriptions of these stages are telling. For example, Muslims in the preradicalization stage are young (under the age of thirty-five), middle-class men. They are recent converts with little or no criminal history. Oftentimes, they are not particularly devout, at least at this stage. As these men move through the other stages, they become more devout and politically active. They may stop smoking or drinking and grow a beard. At this point, the document assumes, Muslims are clearly on the path toward radicalization. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 574
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the staged radicalization model that underlies surveillance — a key conceptual schema for the whole chapter.
- XREF: connects to: NYPD’s radicalization model makes Muslim identity itself a predictor of terrorism — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 486; CVE policing treated religious piety as a signal of radicalization. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 360; The NYPD surveilled ordinary Muslim community spaces designated as radicalization incubators. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 575
Broader Connections
- CVE policing treated religious piety as a signal of radicalization.
#corroborates(0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 360 - NYPD’s radicalization model makes Muslim identity itself a predictor of terrorism
#corroborates(0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 486 - The NYPD surveilled ordinary Muslim community spaces designated as radicalization incubators.
#expands(0.70) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 575