Posted on 03/23/2011 1:03:58 AM PDT by Libloather
Holder announces safety initiative after rise in officer deaths
By Carol Cratty, CNN
March 22, 2011 7:15 p.m. EDT
Washington (CNN) -- Attorney General Eric Holder announced a Law Enforcement Safety Initiative Tuesday, calling the number of law enforcement officers killed in the United States so far this year "simply unacceptable."
Holder's comments came as he met with a group of police chiefs and the heads of several federal law enforcement agencies to talk about the problem. He said the initiative will involve all U.S. attorneys around the country meeting with their local police and others to discuss the issue and to try to find solutions.
According to data compiled by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, 49 officers have been killed this year through Monday, compared with 41 for the same period last year, an increase of 20%. Holder said 23 of those officers lost their lives due to gunshot wounds, including five who worked in federal law enforcement.
The federal law enforcement officers killed recently include Deputy U.S. Marshal Derek Hotsinpiller in West Virginia, Deputy U.S. Marshal John Perry in Missouri, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico.
The attorney general said after a two-year decline, officer deaths "spiked by nearly 40 percent" with the loss of 162 officers in 2010. In 2009, 117 officers were killed.
Holder did not offer a theory on why police and other law enforcement officers are encountering so much violence now.
**SNIP**
In a memorandum to all U.S. attorneys, Holder asked them to look for the "worst of the worst" criminal offenders who "cycle in and out of local jails and state prisons" and see whether they might be charged with federal crimes that would carry stiffer prison sentences.
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Maybe if Holder stopped sending thousands of guns to Mexican criminal organizations, less people like BP Agent Terry and Zapata would die.
But we are going to double the number of unarmed ICE agents in Mexico as a response. Evidently, force protection isn’t covered in the OJT for Attorney General or Sec DHS.
Law enforcement officers are “encountering so much violence now” because we have a bunch of racist, PC commies at the helm who are intent on “immigration reform” designed (for Obama votes in 2012)for criminals who are intent on breaking this country financially and taking back “their” land. Obama’s bunch is not going to abide by the law themselves, and their sympathies are with other lawbreakers (allegedly, she said, to avoid a lawsuit).
Do your job that is not in Libya.
Holder is DEFINITELY NOT on our side of the Barracades.
Neither are SOME of the others.
Which ones, we’re not sure—are we?
So you’re taking more casualties now.....
Surprise, surprise.
Holder’s “safety initiative” will doubtless include what the New York Times accidentally spilled: Holder wants to ban all private sales or transfers of guns, requiring government registration of every gun in the country. Such a law/regulation will be the effective END of 2nd and 4th Amendment rights. What the government grants can be taken away at any moment.
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