This is a “drive by” story. The lack of details has the smack of “Everybody panic!” Why? “BECAUSE!!!”
http://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2013
Here is some stats from 2013, Line of duty LEO deaths (including federal) by cause:
Line of Duty Deaths: 105
9/11 related illness: 1
Aircraft accident: 1
Automobile accident: 25
Boating accident: 1
Bomb: 1
Drowned: 2
Duty related illness: 1
Electrocuted: 1
Fall: 4
Fire: 1
Gunfire: 30
Gunfire (Accidental): 2
Heart attack: 10
Motorcycle accident: 4
Stabbed: 2
Struck by vehicle: 8
Training accident: 2
Vehicle pursuit: 4
Vehicular assault: 5
Fatalities in the first six months of that year: 53
A 31% increase in the first six months of this year: 69 (+16).
Importantly, the “anti-government sentiment” he mentions in New Jersey, was when a member of the Bloods street gang murdered a police officer, and was in turn killed at the time by a police officer, causing the Bloods gang to call for assassinating police officers in New Jersey. Not your typical “anti-government sentiment”.
As far as Las Vegas goes, it was the psychotic white couple who murdered two officers at lunch and several other people, dropping a Nazi flag on one and a Don’t Tread on Me flag on the other. Remember them? Total nuts. Were kicked out of the standoff at the ranch in Nevada.
In all the stats in this thread, odd that no cops commit suicide.