John Cohen: “Our job is not to police thought and speech. Our job is to prevent acts of violence.”

There was a perception that the CVE Program, which was started with good intentions, was mainly a subterfuge to facilitate surveillance of communities of color.

When public figures whether they be in the media, whether elected officials or former elected officials amplify and spread those narratives, they validate them, and when they validate them, they increase the potential that an individual…

The challenges endanger our communities and our way of life, and include terrorism perpetrated by both foreign and domestic actors.

not using `radicalization.' [Its] focus is not to police thought but to prevent violence.