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A Cop Is Killed Every 58 Hours
National Review ^ | 08/15/2014 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 08/15/2014 5:05:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

If you’ve been watching cable news, reading Hollywood celebrities’ tweets, and listening to race-hustling opportunists, you might think that every police officer in America has a finger on the trigger, hunting for any excuse to gun down defenseless youths.

This hysterical nonsense must be stopped.

The Cirque du Cop-Bashing, with Al Sharpton as ringmaster, is working overtime to exploit the deadly incident in Ferguson, Mo. That means stoking anti–law enforcement fires at all costs.

Are there bad cops? Yes. Does the police state go overboard sometimes? Yes. Do the demagogues decrying systemic racism and braying about “assassinations” know what happened when teenager Mike Brown was tragically shot and killed last week? No.

Here’s a reality check. While narcissistic liberal journalists and college kids are all posting “hands up” selfies in hipster solidarity with Ferguson protesters, it’s law-enforcement officers who risk their lives in “war zones” every day across the country.

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) reports that a total of 1,501 law-enforcement officers died in the line of duty during the past ten years, an average of one death every 58 hours, or 150 per year. These include local and state police officers, federal officers, correctional officers, and military law-enforcement officers.

Fact: Last year, 100 law-enforcement officers were killed. On average, over the past decade, there have been 58,261 assaults against law enforcement each year, resulting in 15,658 injuries.

Fact: New York City has lost more officers in the line of duty than any other department, with 697 deaths. Texas has lost 1,675 officers, more than any other state.

Just this week, NLEOMF released preliminary fatality statistics from August 2013 to August 2014. Total fatalities are up 14 percent, from 63 last year to 72 this year.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cop; ferguson; leo; murder; nleomf; officerdown; police; policekilled
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To: WayneS

I do see the point, but dying in a traffic accident like anyone who commutes or drives for a living, or someone accidentally shooting themselves to death is not really what such a headline implies.


101 posted on 08/15/2014 2:31:39 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: WayneS
Of course, they don’t say how many of the officers killed by gunfire are actually shot by a perpetrator, while on duty. I suspect they bury suicides in there somewhere.

Wrong. Educate yourself and link onto each officer that died by gunfire. They give a summary of events.

102 posted on 08/15/2014 4:32:44 PM PDT by QT3.14 (USA born 7.4.1776 fathered by geniuses - died 11.4.2008 (Suicide) by idiots and traitors)
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To: DarkSavant
I don’t see a full blown parade every time a lumberjack (much more dangerous) dies. Lumberjacks aren't paid by taxpayers to collect societies garbage.
103 posted on 08/15/2014 4:40:12 PM PDT by QT3.14 (USA born 7.4.1776 fathered by geniuses - died 11.4.2008 (Suicide) by idiots and traitors)
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To: oh8eleven

bttt


104 posted on 08/15/2014 4:52:21 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: C. Edmund Wright
...As police forces become more militaristic...

I’m not sure Malkin, Limbaugh, Ingraham, get this yet.

Maybe there is something you don't get.

Rush brought this up today. He believes LE attitudes changed after the Hollywood bank holdup and shooting rampage years ago. Remember the perps were practically in full combat gear, body armour, AK-47's?

LAPD had to respond wearing officer-friendly uniforms and street duds armed with pea-shooters and shot guns. They had to finally go to a gun store and comandeer the heavy-hitting stuff from their stock.

It is easy to sit safe and sound behind your keyboard.

Put yourself out there. What would you want at your disposal to deal with these kind of situations?

105 posted on 08/15/2014 5:31:18 PM PDT by QT3.14 (USA born 7.4.1776 fathered by geniuses - died 11.4.2008 (Suicide) by idiots and traitors)
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To: QT3.14

Ok snotty, I’ll return fire. Remember YOU started it:

You are obviously a LEO of some sort, probably a union one, and hiding your attitudes behind the blue wall. Fine. You’re nailed. And you missed my point anyway.

Now to that point: I am well aware of all you say. That doesn’t change the fact that the former “law and order conservative” belief in always giving the cops the benefit of the doubt has eroded significantly. I was raised to inherently respect cops. I have raised my kids differently. What changed? It wasn’t me. It is the attitude of LEOs.

It quite often seems like the only people they “protect and serve” are each other, and their pensions. Am I generalizing? Yes, but that’s okay, since I have said I am generalizing.


106 posted on 08/15/2014 6:23:15 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: kenmcg
I don't call the cops. Ever. Period.

Why make a bad situation worse?

I'll take care of my own security, and let the chips fall where they may.

/johnny

107 posted on 08/15/2014 7:33:17 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: kenmcg

If there’s a reckless driver pursuing another reckless driver, then there’s two reckless drivers on the road.

How is that an improvement?


108 posted on 08/15/2014 7:38:02 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: no-to-illegals

Cops don’t need full-auto weapons under ANY circumstances.

If bad guys have full-auto, the cops need good scoped bolt-action rifles chambered in .308 Winchester or .30-’06.

Very little body armor will stop those, and I don’t think there’s a face-mask in the world that’ll stop them.


109 posted on 08/15/2014 7:45:11 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring
They did have to go get addition weapons for the California bank robbery. They were outgunned when the two perps had full autos and full body armor. Know the police will not be allowed to carry full auto soon ... here in the states but when outgunned by something and someone with full auto would certainly be handy to have one in the trunk if one could get there to the trunk. The two perps were finally taken out with head shots. Bullets were bouncing off the armor the two perps wore.
110 posted on 08/15/2014 7:52:59 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: mad_as_he$$
I don’t think those numbers are sorted to filter “friendly fire” - one of the biggest killers of cops.

That's another good reason not to give them automatic weapons. It's unbelievable how many rounds miss their mark in some of these shootings. Many of them into bystanders, nearby buildings, cars, other officers. Quite a few should only be given one bullet and it should be kept locked up until needed.

111 posted on 08/15/2014 7:57:32 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: Neidermeyer
What % of the workers in those jobs are men, and what % are women?

Because Patriarchy. /sarc>

112 posted on 08/15/2014 8:51:17 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: kenmcg
The officer undergoes comprehensive training to operate a vehicle under all types of circumstances.

So...why the complaint about the extra danger? You can't have it both ways.

113 posted on 08/15/2014 8:52:46 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
there's changing views on abortion, gay marriage, amnesty, and Obamacare too. But they're not good ones. I’m not sure Malkin, Limbaugh, Ingraham, get this yet.

Good on them

114 posted on 08/15/2014 8:57:26 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
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To: freeangel
From now on, I want to see white protestors out every time a person (cop or otherwise) is mudered by “one of obamas sons”). I want it plainly visible WHY there are more “people of color” behind bars. Knockout “games” that are killing and maiming whites? I want the same demonstrations against the feral behavior of those who think harming others is fun.

it's too bad that won't happen, because if it did this pc garbage would probably stop. And blacks would have to stop blaming everyone else and take a good look at themselves and their culture and how it foments violent criminal behavior.

115 posted on 08/15/2014 9:03:15 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
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To: SeekAndFind

http://www.nleomf.org/facts/enforcement/

•There are more than 900,000 sworn law enforcement officers now serving in the United States.

•A total of 1,501 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty during the past 10 years, an average of one death every 58 hours or 150 per year. There were 100 law enforcement officers killed in 2013.

[That works out to 0.01667% killed per year.]

•The 1920s were the deadliest decade in law enforcement history, when a total of 2,390 officers died, or an average of almost 239 each year. The deadliest year in law enforcement history was 1930, when 297 officers were killed. That figure dropped dramatically in the 1990s, to an average of 162 per year.

[so the number has been dropping dramatically]

on the other hand...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/local-cops-kill-400-people-year-report-article-1.1904876

On average, local police forces kill 400 people every year in the Unites States, according to a seven-year FBI study. In 2012, cops were responsible for 410 deaths. All but one was with a firearm.


116 posted on 08/15/2014 10:40:44 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Neidermeyer

yep!


117 posted on 08/15/2014 10:42:53 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Cubs Fan

you so totally missed the point……you are conflating two very different dynamics.


118 posted on 08/16/2014 1:49:45 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: WayneS
Well, one of them has flashing lights and is making a lot of noise.

If it's just the quiet one, you might never see it coming.

119 posted on 08/16/2014 3:05:50 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Neidermeyer

Jeeze, I have only done six of those, been a firefighter, and work on oil rigs. I feel like such a piker...


120 posted on 08/16/2014 3:08:22 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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