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 ...
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.
Wrong. Educate yourself and link onto each officer that died by gunfire. They give a summary of events.
bttt
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?
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.
Why make a bad situation worse?
I'll take care of my own security, and let the chips fall where they may.
/johnny
If there’s a reckless driver pursuing another reckless driver, then there’s two reckless drivers on the road.
How is that an improvement?
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.
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.
Because Patriarchy. /sarc>
So...why the complaint about the extra danger? You can't have it both ways.
Good on them
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.
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.
yep!
you so totally missed the point……you are conflating two very different dynamics.
If it's just the quiet one, you might never see it coming.
Jeeze, I have only done six of those, been a firefighter, and work on oil rigs. I feel like such a piker...
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