possibly an exaggeration ?
Most likely.
From the article:
""We don't like to go to police funerals either. But we go to them hundreds of times a year, because our police officers die so this man has the right to say whatever he chooses," said Susie Sawyer, executive director of the Concerns of Police Survivors, a national support group for the families of slain officers.
There was only one, count 'em ONE, NYPD officer killed in the line of duty this year. So these "hundreds" a year she's talking about must be funerals for 70-year-old retired officers who died of heart attacks, old age? Serving officers who fell in the bathtub?
My bad. She's part of a NATIONAL support group, not a New York group only. Disregard my previous post.
There were 4 or 5 officers nationwide killed feloniously last week. two in Texas, One in CA and I apoligize to my fallen brothers but I forgot the others' locales.
She's talking about nationwide statistics. Not NYPD alone.
20,000 cops, from as far away as Japan, went to that funeral.