Posted on 07/22/2020 5:54:06 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Having gotten a taste for public service while in the U.S. Coast Guard, Jonathan Shoop joined the police force looking for a career he was passionate about after managing delivery teams for Amazon for nearly five years, his brother said.
Shoop became the 32nd U.S. law enforcement officer shot to death this year on July 13, marking a 28% jump in felonious officer deaths over the same period in 2019, according to data from the FBI.
In the wake of George Floyd's death in late May, tremendous scrutiny was placed on policing with peaceful protests broadly calling for reform. But accompanying that was a rise in an anti-police sentiment that, experts say, manifested itself in attacks on officers, patrol vehicles and precinct station houses, leaving cops around the country feeling under siege.
An ABC News review found that in recent years, periods of civil unrest coincided with an increase in police killings. While the sample size is small and a multitude of factors come into play in each situation, some experts say that an anti-police sentiment helps embolden offenders.
Maria "Maki" Haberfeld, a professor of police science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, said while she cannot definitively say that the increase in police officer slayings are related to the mass protests or the increase in anti-police rhetoric by demonstrators and politicians alike, police have become "scapegoats" for broader anger.
"Going out on the street and directing violence to somebody who represents the government, because police are an arm of the government, is the easiest thing to do," Haberfeld said. “There is a constant search for the scapegoat for whatever is happening in the society and the scapegoat ends up being law enforcement regardless of what it is that people have grievances about."
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More cops are being killed and injured than these “protesters”.
*exploit it*
Good Lord.
And more White people are murdered by blacks than the total of blacks killed by police and White people combined.
IF the democrat party and the media were worth anything they would be trying to fix this situation. Instead, they are the cause of it.
Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.
I expect mass police retirements and transfers out of these violent cities.
Colin Flaherty reports that rural police depts. in Northern California and Oregon are full of former cops from Chicago, Philly, Washington DC.
the continuation of 0bama’s War on Cops.
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