A Terrorism Laffer Curve

by Patrick Appel

DiA writes about Muslim organizations refusing to cooperate with the FBI because of tactics used the government:

I've always thought these kinds of situations can probably be sketched with a sort of Laffer curve. In principle, you're going to be able to get the same amount of terrorist violence at two places along a curve of repressive law enforcement: a low-repression point, where the population is cooperative and feels included, and a high-repression point, where the population is angry and alienated but a lot of them are in jail. It's worth expending some effort to try and stay on the low end of that curve. 

This sounds a lot like the concept Conor tried to sketch out over last weekend.