It's "meta" and coordinates in some way between different levels of law-enforcement.
CP3 strengthens our country’s ability to prevent targeted violence and terrorism nationwide through funding, education, training, evidence-based resources, increased public awareness, and strategic partnerships across every level of government, the private sector, and in local communities.
Notice the lack of "we have hundreds of trained terrorism experts investigating and taking steps to employ federal agents to track down and prevent terrorism." They give money, summarize best practices, and host seminars.
As their website puts it,
CP3’s approach to targeted violence and terrorism prevention (TVTP) is based on time-tested principles of public health that focus on the safety and well-being of entire populations.
CP3 builds partnerships with a wide range of TVTP providers and stakeholders across every level of government, the private sector, and within local communities. CP3’s prevention activities seek to improve the conditions in which people grow, live, work, and age that shape health outcomes. For TVTP and CP3, this means addressing the social determinants that can decrease the likelihood of individuals engaging in targeted violence and terrorism on four prevention levels, categorized as primordial, primary, secondary, and tertiary. ...
CP3’s targeted violence and terrorism prevention efforts nationwide coincide with a public
demand for resources and support for preventing targeted violence. In FY 2024, DHS received
the highest number and most geographically diverse set of qualified applications of any grant
cycle to date receiving 178 eligible applications from 47 U.S. states and territories, including
Washington, DC, requesting $98.9 million for the available $18 million. [ sic ]
US anti-terrorism efforts in 2024, I would hope, exceeded even $200 million.
Think
NPR is left-of-center or fascist, nobody disputes that of those with political affiliations they're (D), and in 2022 they wrote:
The emphasis that CP3 places on locally-driven prevention would shift the task of identifying behaviors that may be associated with radicalization to non-government partners, and would default to interventions that would not involve law enforcement, such as mental health counseling. ...
Last year, CP3 distributed $20 million to local grantees. The administration has allocated another $20 million to the program for the 2022 fiscal year, out of a total of $131 million that will go toward domestic terrorism prevention at DHS.
More recently, their
10/24 report to Congress, said,
Key among these principles is the use of behavioral indicators to engage multidisciplinary
behavioral threat assessment and management interventions along with addressing risk and
protective factors relevant to violence and violence prevention. The Community Awareness
Briefing and TVTP Grant Program are two CP3 initiatives that reference behavioral indicators as
well as risk and protective factors. CP3 also conducts annual evaluations of TVTP Grant
Program grantees, including those employing this approach to case management, which inform
an evidence base and drive future resource allocation decisions....
They're coordinating local and state activities to locate factors that would encourage domestic terrorism and fight them, and their focus was on white supremacist (but not excluding other kinds) by trying to prevent domestic radicalization. Not sleeper agents, infiltration, smuggling. They would be on the lookout for, say, the New Year's bomber in NOLA, for actual "Jose Padillas", maybe for somebody like Boelter.
With a small budget, coordinating
informational role and no actual enforcement role at all, it wasn't a big deal except for public health strategies and helping local governments and NGOs. With it's staff skewered, it has less of a role.
Perspective. Putting a 22-year-old (maybe 23 by now!) with no experience in a managerial role over a resource center and clearing house writ large and fairly small-potatoes funding source isn't gutting national security from Iranian agents or infiltrators. It might be good for finding somebody who says, "Hey, them there Iranian's done been wronged, I'm pissed and will show my anger, as a proud white American, by blowing up a Jewish Community Center." Or insert "son of Pakistani immigrant", "convert to Islam," "defender against imperialism" or any other radicalization you imagine. But even then, it's the local folk doing the monitoring, not the CP3. They host seminars, distribute "best practices," and help fund local efforts.
The rest is clickbait hyperbole. It's a useful little bit of an agency, but central to anything, not hardly. (And when it was announced, "white supremacy" really was a focus, the only kind of terrorism specifically pointed out several times.)
There are bigger issues.
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