Mitchell D. Silber

Mitchell Darrow Silber (born February 7, 1970) is the executive director of the Community Security Initiative, a partnership between the UJA-Federation of New York (UJA) and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York (JCRC-NY), funded by The Paul E. Singer Foundation, Carolyn and Marc Rowan, and several other foundations, to help secure local Jewish institutions in the New York region. He is a professional global political risk, intelligence and security analyst and the former director of intelligence analysis at the New York City Police Department (NYPD). He is a regular commentator on political risk and terrorism related issues for both print and broadcast news outlets.

He is the author of a 2007 NYPD Intelligence Division report titled "Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat," which laid the groundwork for a public policy debate about the growing concern for homegrown terrorism and was meant to serve as a tool for law enforcement to better understand how the process of homegrown radicalization to terrorism occurs. The report became controversial as some progressive and Muslim activist groups alleged that it served to legitimize surveillance of Muslims in the United States by law enforcement. Silber denies that was its purpose.