Posted on 12/05/2021 6:27:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A total of 60 United States police officers have been shot and killed in the line of duty since the beginning of the year, new data reveals, following anti-law enforcement riots and the start of the “Defund the Police” movement in 2020.
According to records from the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) and the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP), 60 police officers across 45 U.S. states and territories have been killed in gunfire from January 1 to December 3 — a nearly 28 percent increase in fatal shootings of officers compared to all of 2020 when 47 officers were shot and killed.
As of November 30, FOP records state that 314 police officers have been shot since the beginning of the year. One hundred and nineteen of those shootings occurred in the midst of 95 separate ambush-style attacks on officers, resulting in 28 of the total gunfire deaths.
Ambush attacks on officers have increased nearly 130 percent since 2020.
Chart via National Fraternal Order of Police
According to ODMP data, three police officers have been killed in the first four days of December. Madison “Skip” Nicholson, a reserve police deputy, was killed in gunfire in Wilcox County, Alabama on December 1.
Likewise, Mesquite, Texas, police officer Richard Houston, II was shot and killed in gunfire on December 3 while St. Louis County, Missouri, detective Antonio Valentine was killed in a vehicle pursuit on December 1.
Officers Madison “Skip” Nicholson, Richard Houston, II, and Antonio Valentine were killed in the line of duty in the first four days of December of...
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This is very saddening. But there is hope. Police departments in red state America, the ones who don’t hate police, are hiring. The deep-blue areas are sliding into cesspools of their own digging. No reason for decent folks to stick around for a swim.
Your graphic says it all.
I’d like to know how many of the monsters who murdered these officers, had recently been released on little, or no bail, by a liberal Judge, District Attorney or State Attorney General.
and, or pardoned by some liberal Governor.
Absolutely!!
when you stop the funding of AG,s and commie activist organizations by soros gates corporations and other billionaires you begin to get a hold on the chaos
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