Back in 2021, then FBI Director, Christopher Wray, a Trump appointee, said that white supremacy is a “persistent, evolving threat” and the “biggest chunk” of racially motivated violent extremism in the U.S. To Mike German who served sixteen years as an FBI special agent  and the author of “Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within”, that’s an understatement.  It represents just a snapshot of a long America tradition of over-policing people of color in America, starting with slave patrols in our early history, and continuing virtually unabated until now. He starts the book by detailing the manifestations of this as reflected in the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. He quotes former Republican campaign operative Steve Schmidt saying ‘there’s a 5th column within their ranks’ and that many of the police organizations underestimated the threat and some cooperated with it.  This, German notes, is part of a historical pattern and one that gets swept under the rug because the FBI does not even compile accurate national data on white supremacist violence and has a culture of tolerating overt racism in law enforcement in general.