Jan. 30, 2025
Following a spike in hostility targeting local officials in November driven by national issues like the election, the number of reported incidents declined in December. The latest update from BDI’s Threats and Harassment Dataset (THD) captured over 25 events for the month, marking a return to the high baseline recorded earlier in 2024. On aggregate, the data shows that threats and harassment are becoming more frequent over time, even as total levels of political violence trended down last year.
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