I think the police training is poor. This didnt happen in the 70s. But then you didnt have all out assassins murdering random police like we see today.
“I think the police training is poor. This didnt happen in the 70s. But then you didnt have all out assassins murdering random police like we see today.”
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As of Thursday, 128 officers died in the line of duty this year, down from 135 in 2016. Since 1959, only 2013 saw fewer officers die while on duty, when 116 were killed, according to data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
The leading cause of death for officers in 2017 was traffic crashes, which killed 47 policemen and -women. Forty-four officers were shot and killed in 2017.
There absolutely were people ambushing and killing police in the seventies along with a good many bombings.
More cops were killed in the 70s than today. That decade had more cops killed than Anf since the 1920s.
http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fatalities-data/year.html
Uh, yeah, it did happen in the 70s and the 60s before it. It just wasn’t as numerous and it didn’t get anything like the media coverage such incidents get now.
Or what did you think that the Rolling Stones were singing about in 1973’s Heartbreaker???? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doo_Doo_Doo_Doo_Doo_(Heartbreaker)
Yup. NYPD shot and killed a 10 year old boy.