FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) The University of Arkansas is on a search for patterns in U.S. terrorism as part of federally funded research.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the university’s Terrorism Research Center has begun the American Terrorism Study, a three-year project funded by a $716,000 National Institute of Justice grant. The study includes about 575 U.S. terrorism-related occurrences or planned occurrences, as many were planned attacks never actually carried out.
Grant Drawve is a data analyst and assistant professor in the university’s sociology and criminology department. He says researchers have been using statistical methods to find patterns on factors like distance traveled by plotters to target sites.
Drawve says researchers hope to eventually predict some attacks by developing a data-based model to map and find commonalities of terrorism in the U.S.
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