Christopher Magyarics
Chris Magyarics is a Senior Investigative Researcher and Training Coordinator with the Anti-Defamation League’s Center On Extremism. As an Investigative Researcher, he is responsible for the on-going monitoring of various white supremacist organizations and sub-movements throughout the United States. He is assigned to conduct trainings and provide threat assessments and intelligence briefings on the tactics, strategies, and objectives of white supremacist organizations for federal, state, and local law enforcement. Since 2005, Chris has trained over 17,000 law enforcement officers at more than 280 trainings specializing in white supremacist prison gangs, racist skinheads, traditional white supremacists, and the white power music scene throughout the U.S. He has also conducted trainings at international conferences in Canada and Europe. Chris serves as an expert consultant to law enforcement agencies on cases involving various types of white supremacists, with an expertise on the interpretation and analysis of tattoos and numeric codes and symbols. He has assisted law enforcement on several white supremacist-related investigations as well as provided expert witness testimony in extremist-related trials.
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