The southern region of Dakota is also the site of some of the most violent anti-government militia attacks of the past twenty years, and a center for militia operations throughout the Midwest. The most violent of these acts of militia aggression took place in the Washabaugh County seat of Brownburg in February 1982, an event known as the '82 Brownburg Shootings in which 17 locals and 6 State Troopers were gunned down, with a further 25 injured. That event ignited a new wave of militia violence that continues across the nation to this day.