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 ...
Here genius, go argue with Mark Steyn. Lemme know how that works out:
http://www.steynonline.com/6524/cigars-but-not-close
Still haven’t found an instance of ferguson police official misconduct, huh? Well, Keep looking. let me know when you find one. Good luck.
Again, you are not intelligent enough to see where we agree. I have said NOTHING about Ferguson cops necessarily being in the wrong (though Mark Steyn lit their asses up, and he has a zillion times more conservative cred than you ever will).
But again, we agree on the race issue and I am agnostic on the Ferguson cops per se til it all comes out. What I do say, and will say, and have said, is that cops are by and large no longer friends of law and order conservatives, and they are part of a raw government power grab.
You are too stupid to see it. Like I said, stay at the childrens table and talk about the no duh stuff we all know and have known for years. We adults will handle the more difficult questions. They are way over your head.
Excellent post.
As those things say over at National Palisimian Radio, “Let’s do the math.”
One cop killed every 58 hours divided by 24 hours translates to one cop killed every 2.4 days.
Cops don’t make the Ten Most Dangerous Jobs List for a reason.
Back to construction workers, where 2.2 die every day.
So, on an hourly basis a construction worker dies every 10 hours.
5.8 construction workers die for every cop who dies on teh job.
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