https://github.com/j2kun/terrorism-usa-post-9-11
A copy of the terror data published by NewAmerica
https://github.com/j2kun/terrorism-usa-post-9-11
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A copy of the terror data published by NewAmerica
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/j2kun/terrorism-usa-post-9-11
- Owner: j2kun
- Created: 2017-02-02T19:12:46.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2020-06-09T03:31:28.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-24T16:53:19.123Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: data, politics, terrorism, transparency
- Size: 328 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# Terrorism events in the USA since 2001/09/11
This repo contains a copy of the json dataset provided by the [New America foundation](https://github.com/newamericafoundation) used to create [this interactive visualization](https://www.newamerica.org/in-depth/terrorism-in-america/what-threat-united-states-today/#the-threat-is-not-existential)
Screenshot of the visualization taken on 2017-02-02:
A csv copy is kept in the `csv` subdirectory.
## Contributing
Pull requests are welcome, in the regrettable but eventually inevitable event of a future terrorist incident on US soil. Only contribute events in which at least one death occurs.
### Definition of terrorism
From Wikipedia:
> The most common definition of terrorism is used, which includes the following:
>
> - It is the use of violence or threat of violence in order to purport a political, religious, or ideological change.
> - It can only be committed by non-state actors or undercover personnel serving on the behalf of their respective governments.
> - It reaches more than the immediate target victims and is also directed at targets consisting of a larger spectrum of society.
> - It is both mala prohibita (i.e., crime that is made illegal by legislation) and mala in se (i.e., crime that is inherently immoral or wrong).
>
> The following criteria of violence or threat of violence fall outside of the definition of terrorism:
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> - Wartime (including a declared war) or peacetime acts of violence committed by a nation state against another nation state regardless of legality or illegality that are carried out by properly uniformed forces or legal combatants of such nation states.
> - Reasonable acts of self-defense, such as the use of force to kill, apprehend, or punish criminals who pose a threat to the lives of humans or property.
> - Legitimate targets in war, such as enemy combatants and strategic infrastructure that are an integral part of the enemy's war effort.
> - Collateral damage, including the infliction of incidental damage to non-combatant targets during an attack on or attempting to attack legitimate targets in war.