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As the Americans continue to witness meaningless violence During their communities, the rise of nihilistic violence is anxious for law enforcement, as officials are trying to prevent attacks that often come after no warning in New York, who left four dead last month.
The concept of nihilistic violence – actions that do not have an ideological motive and are often conditioned by the need to get approval from extremist internet communities – remains a key conversation when a mass tragedy is carried out.
“Nihilistic violence is a destruction for itself,” said Jonathan Alpert, a psychotherapist based in New York, said Fox News Digital. “It is not about money, ideology or revenge, or rather, the violence born in the void.”
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On Monday, July 28, 2025, officers of the New York Police Department (NYPD) respond to the shooting site on Park 345 Park in New York, USA, July 28, 2025. The shooter attacked 345 Park Ave. In Manhattan, World Blackstone Inc. and the National Football League among others. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Other violent actions that are usually perverted usually have a motive that can be determined,” he said. “Nihilistic violence is different because the act itself is a message: a statement of meaninglessness, a way to say” nothing matter, so I will be devastating. “
In 2024 65% of the terrorist attacks in Western countries according to The last global terrorism index.
The report admits that part of the increase can be attributed to the absence of information regarding specific attacks; It also probably indicates the rise of “ideologically confused” terrorism.
Police officers gather on the streets when they respond to the incident in shooting in the Manhattan neighborhood in New York on July 28, 2025 in New York. Four people died after he was shot dead during an active shooter in Midtown Manhattan, including a police officer. (Liao Pan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)
However, the inability to tie an attack on a well -defined conviction system may present the decision of the terrorist to unite many ideologies in an attempt to justify their violence, the report said.
“This approach complicates efforts to combat terrorism,” the statement reads. “Because it makes these actors unpredictable and heavier in profile.”
Raised random, unpolished violence also caught the attention law enforcement agencies.
The Ministry of Justice called this concept “nihilist violent extremism” (NVE), at the same time defining it as “criminal behavior in the US and abroad, in the development of political, social and religious goals, which are primarily from hatred to society as a whole and the desire to bring their rupture. according to Just security.
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Determining Doj indicates a broader concept of nihilistic violence, which is carried out solely for the sake of the attack, and experts who indicate a certain psychological profile often correspond to the culprits.
“The common thread is an alienation and despair,” Alpert said. “These are people who feel invisible, powerless or insignificant. In this state, violence becomes a way of existence, to notice, to make a statement. This is a perverted attempt to turn the inner void into external influence.”
Wallace Chadwick, Virginia’s police lieutenant and a former gang detective, refers to the difficulties faced by law enforcement officers, trying to outperform random violence before it is committed.
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A glass window with a bullet hole near the place of deadly mass shooting in Manhattan, New York, USA, July 29, 2025. (Mike fresh/Reuters)
“It is very difficult to predict the things that are happening,” said Chadwick Fox News Digital. “With this random violence (for example, if) you get a person who appears on the Times Skver with a firearm, it is difficult to predict.”
However, Chadwick also repeated the same sentiments regarding the overall mental profile among the attackers.
“These people have predecessors,” Chadwick said. “I believe that there is anyone who knows that this person is broken (or) this person has mentioned that they want to do something. It is coming back to the rules when you see something, say something.”
As for recent cases of nihilist violence, Alpert turns to mass shooting on July 28 in New York The office building that left four innocent people – together with the militant – is dead.
The tragedy unfolded When the militant entered the 345 Park Ave., an office building in which Blackstone and NFL lives, and opened fire. The shooter struck three people into the lobby of the building before pulling the elevator to the 33rd floor, where he shot the fourth man before turning the gun on himself.
“If someone decides that life is irrelevant, they often conclude that other lives are not,” Alpert said. “Then the violence becomes a way of making its hopeless world.”
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While officials believe that the shooting is rooted in the militant Feelings to nflAlso showing that he traveled from Las Vegas in New York to attack, Alpert indicates the general absence of the offender’s agenda.
“A chance of the attack suggests that it was not about the settlement of the score or the promotion of the case,” said Alpert Fox News Digital. “It was desperately predicted outwards.”
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According to the data that continues upwards in randomized, nihilist violence, Alpert said the upcoming threat of the attack destroys the sense of security of Americans in their communities.
“They are more terrible because when there is no motive, there is no way to protect themselves,” he said. “The violence of the gang or political violence has goals. Nihilistic violence, on the contrary, says that everyone can fall victim to anytime. This unpredictability destroys the sense of security, which we expect in public spaces.”
