Book Forum # *Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within* Published By The New Press ##### Watch the Event Download: [ Video ](https://fastly-unsigned-us-east-1-prod.brightcovecdn.com/media/v1/pmp4/static/clear/6039378657001/759f636a-d76a-4319-83c4-73a1a36b73ea/7a3b48f5-4c20-4c68-90db-aa537a93f1c3/main.mp4) [ Audio ](https://feeds.acast.com/public/streams/5e2e15a046f4465f31c89d8c/episodes/67e46c0284f1e8b7078a7251.mp3) Join the conversation on X using [\#CatoEvents](https://x.com/hashtag/CatoEvents). Follow [@CatoInstitute](https://x.com/catoinstitute) on X to get future event updates, live streams, and videos from the Cato Institute. Date and Time March 26, 2025 1 - 2:30 PM EDT Location Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC Share This Event ##### Featuring ![Mike German](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2025-02/mike-german.jpeg?itok=yT7kHzLB) Mike German Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law [ ](https://twitter.com/Rethinkintel) [![Mike Fox - cropped](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2024-11/mikefox-cropped.jpg?itok=Dn0jiRsb)](/people/mike-fox) [Mike Fox](/people/mike-fox) Legal Fellow, Cato Institute [ ](https://x.com/foxmike90) [![Patrick G. Eddington](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2021-01/Patrick%20Eddington.jpg?itok=ddIWrIm5)](/people/patrick-g-eddington) [Patrick G. Eddington](/people/patrick-g-eddington) Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [ ](https://x.com/pgeddington) [ ](mailto:peddington@cato.org) Somewhere between the tendency to see everything through the lens of race and racial oppression and the tendency to dismiss those dynamics altogether lies the truth in any given setting, including criminal justice. That there are police officers in this country who hold racist views is a problem the FBI has acknowledged in its own intelligence reports and information-sharing guidance to its agents. But how pervasive are racist views among police at the federal, state, and local levels? To what extent is there empirical evidence that racism among police leads to greater harassment, arrests, or violence against racial, ethnic, or religious minorities? Though the term “white supremacy” may be overused today, even as a synonym for racism, it should not desensitize us to the existence and true nature of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups nor stop us from asking to what extent such elements have been able to find employment within law enforcement. In *Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within*, FBI veteran Mike German tackles these and other questions. German spent 16 years with the bureau and conducted extensive and very dangerous undercover work targeting white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. Join us on March 26 at 1 p.m. EDT as Cato senior fellow Patrick Eddington and Cato legal fellow Mike Fox question German about his new book and his own experiences as an FBI undercover agent who infiltrated violent right-wing groups. [![Policing White Supremacy cover](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/promo_block/public/2025-02/policing-white-supremacy-cover.jpg?itok=bIyIqcVj)](https://www.amazon.com/Policing-White-Supremacy-Enemy-Within/dp/1620977060?tag=catoinstitute-20) ##### Featured Book ### *[Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within](https://www.amazon.com/Policing-White-Supremacy-Enemy-Within/dp/1620977060?tag=catoinstitute-20)* In *Policing White Supremacy*, former FBI agent Mike German, who worked undercover in white supremacist and militia groups, issues a wake-up call about law enforcement’s dangerously lax approach to far-right violence. Despite over a hundred deadly acts by far-right militants since the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, and the far right’s attempts to obstruct transfer of power to a duly elected president on January 6, the FBI continues to deprioritize investigations into white supremacist violence, instead targeting marginalized groups such as environmentalists and Black Lives Matter. In 2005, for example, the FBI labeled eco-terrorists as the top domestic threat, despite not a single fatal attack in the United States. [Purchase Book](https://www.amazon.com/Policing-White-Supremacy-Enemy-Within/dp/1620977060?tag=catoinstitute-20) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).