US terrorist attacks declined sharply from 1970 to 2011

Evidence

But are Americans really in any more danger than they were prior to the attacks on 9/11? A recent study of terrorist attacks in the United States from 1970 to 2011 reveals that terrorism in the United States is actually on the decline. In the year 1970, 470 terrorist attacks were recorded, while the ten-year span between 2001 and 2011 had only 207 such attacks (Lafree et al. 2012). What did increase, however, was the number of casualties, with the 9/11 attacks resulting in the highest death toll of any single terrorist incident in the United States. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 49

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the reader’s core map point that the surveillance response is wildly disproportionate to actual threat — the empirical anchor for racialization without genuine danger. — connects to: Global terrorism actually declined steadily from its 1987-88 peak until 2004 — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 858; Terrorist incident counts tripled in one year due to counting changes — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 853; Reported terrorist attacks fell below 1980s levels by the early 2000s — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 878
• SEED: Angle: the gap between the terror-fear’s growth (and $B surveillance industry) and the actual declining attack rate is a measurable, falsifiable case study in manufactured moral panic.