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Nation's Top Cop Vows All-Out Effort To Stop "Simply Unacceptable" Rise In Murder Of Police Officers
FoxNews.com ^ | March 22, 2011 | by Mike Levine

Posted on 03/22/2011 10:55:22 PM PDT by topher

The nation's top cop vowed Tuesday to "do all that we can" to combat what he called a "simply unacceptable" number of local and federal law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.

In brief remarks before a closed-door meeting with police chiefs from around the country, Attorney General Eric Holder said nothing is "off the table," including an Obama administration push for Congress to approve new legislation.

"In recent months, we have really seen a dramatic rise in the number of police officers and other law enforcement agents who have been killed in the line of duty," Holder said.

(Excerpt) Read more at politics.blogs.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ag; blackpanthers; copkillers; holder
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To: topher

Surely the state of affairs has improved since the days of Bonnie and Clyde... hasn’t it?


21 posted on 03/22/2011 11:47:23 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: topher

To call that rat-face our “top cop” is like calling Qaddafi the Chairman of the U.N. Council on Human Rights. [Oh, wait, he actually did hold that position...]


22 posted on 03/22/2011 11:49:31 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Le Parti du The'. Ne marchez pas sur moi!)
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To: wastedyears

Anyone with a milligram of sense would take a look at the areas where police die more in on-the-job incidents, and compare them with the prevalence of private carry in those places. Almost invariably, more guns means less crime, this crime too. Armed citizens actually cut the risk to police, because malefactors will look for more vulnerable places to ply their trade, if they do not get Darwin awards first.


23 posted on 03/22/2011 11:51:30 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: topher
After a two-year decline in law enforcement deaths, that number "spiked" last year, with 20 officers killed by guns or assault in the first three months alone, according to Holder. In the same time period this year, 27 officers have been killed by guns or assault, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico...

So obviously Steadman is going to enforce the security on the Mexican border as part of this crack down?

24 posted on 03/22/2011 11:53:39 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Oh no, to send reinforcements to the known trouble spots would make far, far too much sense. Must pretend this stuff is equally likely to pop up anywhere you throw a dart at a map of the USA.


25 posted on 03/22/2011 11:59:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Must pretend this stuff is equally likely to pop up anywhere you throw a dart at a map of the USA.

Something tells me Steadmans map is comprised of strictly red states.

26 posted on 03/23/2011 12:07:23 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: topher

Here is the real numbers...

http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fatalities-data/


27 posted on 03/23/2011 12:16:05 AM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour (With The Resistance...)
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To: topher
Attorney General Eric Holder said nothing is "off the table," including an Obama administration push for Congress to approve new legislation.

Holder's "my people" are the ones doing the killing. I'll bet dealing with the actual culprits is "off the table".

28 posted on 03/23/2011 12:41:17 AM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: Lazlo in PA

It would help if ATF wasn’t arming the bad guys.......What would I know, I’m only a fed trying to stop cross border crimes.


29 posted on 03/23/2011 1:07:04 AM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Steadman has never been a champion of Police officers.

It’s a feign to cover his “fast and furious” debacle


30 posted on 03/23/2011 1:34:27 AM PDT by ChiMark
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To: topher
Take it up with Eric H.

He's the one giving the Narco Terrorists Auto Weapons!

31 posted on 03/23/2011 1:36:42 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
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To: wastedyears
Here comes the gun control. Americans will bend over and take it.

Why do I suspect that pumping up support for more gun control legislation is what all of this is really all about?

32 posted on 03/23/2011 2:55:01 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: wastedyears

Just because the saps in N.Y. have surrendered their 2nd amendment doesn’t mean they are willing in fly over country.


33 posted on 03/23/2011 3:16:17 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Obammy, the man is too small.)
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To: topher

“simply unacceptable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

“Unacceptable”?

So?....What number would be “acceptable”? Huh? ( Unbelievable!)


34 posted on 03/23/2011 5:14:22 AM PDT by wintertime
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When are we going to see the article

“Nation's Top Cop Vows All-Out Effort To Stop “Simply Unacceptable” Rise In Murder Of Innocent civilians, family pets and the tasing of grannies”

35 posted on 03/23/2011 5:30:05 AM PDT by PissAndVinegar
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To: topher
Attorney General Eric Holder said nothing is "off the table,"

Since the the "American 'assault weapons' cause all of the Mexican violence" meme isn't working to help Obama, Holder, et al to further infringe on our 2nd Amendment rights, then "it's for the PO-lice" (similar to the leftists "it's for the CHILDREN" B.S.) mantra from a long-time gun-grabbing playbook is just the latest LIE put forth to bring back more Draconian gun CONTROL.

36 posted on 03/23/2011 5:42:29 AM PDT by DocH (Official Right-Wing Extremist Veteran Seal Of Approval)
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