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A Cop Is Killed Every 58 Hours
National Review ^ | 08/15/2014 | Michelle Malkin

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cop; ferguson; leo; murder; nleomf; officerdown; police; policekilled
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To: C. Edmund Wright
you so totally missed the point……you are conflating two very different dynamics.

Maybe the problem is not Limbaugh, Ingraham and Malkin. Maybe its you.

See tagline.

141 posted on 08/16/2014 8:42:41 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Perhaps it has escaped your notice
Be a cold day in hell when you can lecture me. Nothing has escaped my notice and most certainly not all the ignorant, immature cop haters on FR.
You even have the gall to call yourself conservative. If you and your ilk don't like being exposed, don't post your hate here.
142 posted on 08/16/2014 9:15:22 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven
Be a cold day in hell when you can lecture me. Nothing has escaped my notice and most certainly not all the ignorant, immature cop haters on FR. You even have the gall to call yourself conservative. If you and your ilk don't like being exposed, don't post your hate here.

Then it's chilly in hell, because I not only lectured you, I schooled you, crushed you, destroyed you and embarrassed you. Your desperate pathetic infantile rant about "hating cops" and "conservative" is totally baseless and obviously a spoiled three year old tantrum.

143 posted on 08/16/2014 10:51:23 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: oh8eleven
Be a cold day in hell when you can lecture me. Nothing has escaped my notice and most certainly not all the ignorant, immature cop haters on FR. You even have the gall to call yourself conservative. If you and your ilk don't like being exposed, don't post your hate here.

Then it's chilly in hell, because I not only lectured you, I schooled you, crushed you, destroyed you and embarrassed you. Your desperate pathetic infantile rant about "hating cops" and "conservative" is totally baseless and obviously a spoiled three year old tantrum.

144 posted on 08/16/2014 10:51:32 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Cubs Fan
Maybe the problem is not Limbaugh, Ingraham and Malkin. Maybe its you.

The problem is, you are way behind the times, and I think way behind in reading comprehension. I am not at all on the race baiters side - but I have noticed a sea change in cop attitudes in the past 6-10-15 years. If you haven't, then you don't get out much.

But you go ahead and pretend in your little cloistered fantasy world that most cops are the friend of a free republic. This naivete will bite you on your ass one day…….I guaran -dam-tee it.

145 posted on 08/16/2014 10:53:59 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

You make my point every time you post. Thx, LOL ...


146 posted on 08/16/2014 11:25:40 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
The problem is, you are way behind the times, and I think way behind in reading comprehension.

Yeah I'm "behind the times" on amnesty, abortion, gun control, obamacare and gay marriage too. Oh well.

I am not at all on the race baiters side

Right, keep telling yourself that while you help their cause.

but I have noticed a sea change in cop attitudes in the past 6-10-15 years. If you haven't, then you don't get out much.

Well that's anecdotal evidence at best. But if we're going to go there I can say that when I was younger I would mouth off to cops and was rude and I was given the same treatment back. When I got older I smartened up and learned if you treat them nicely, usually, not always, but usually, they will do the same to you.

147 posted on 08/16/2014 11:30:04 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
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To: Cubs Fan

okay, you’re just an IDIOT. You are confusing two very different ideas. I don’t know how to get thru to thick folks.

I am saying that cops are no longer friends of a free republic. This is not at all the same thing as “morphing” on issues of principle. It’s the damned cops who have changed, not a lot of us. I don’t know if I can possibly type slowly enough for your brain to get it. This is like the third ignorant post you’ve made on the same topic. You are projecting and not reading.


148 posted on 08/16/2014 11:43:01 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: oh8eleven

you laugh the laugh of the ignorant.


149 posted on 08/16/2014 11:43:41 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Neidermeyer
Here on the other side of the fence you are the enemy 90%+ of the time ... I had a cop hanging out at a firestation hold the emergency signal red for over 10 full minutes on me with his MIRT device ,,, when I finally honked my horn and pulled through the “stuck” red light (no traffic in any direction) he pulled me over ... bastard was manufacturing tickets...

Hmmm.... That sounds like a ticket I got in 1976. Turning left in the middle of the night. Having a nice time listening to the radio, in no hurry. So, I sat for at least 10 minutes. Obviously, the light wasn't going to turn green, so I went. WHOOP-WHOOP! The cop swore in court that I just pulled up and ran through. I was 18. If it was today, I'd have told the judge she was a lying perjurer. Instead, I just shook my head and paid the $25. The judge knew she was lying.

Sorry to bore you. But, your post got me stirred up. Thanks!

150 posted on 08/16/2014 11:51:30 AM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Peace On Earth! Purity of Essence! McCain/Ripper 2016)
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To: oh8eleven; Cubs Fan

Wake up idiots:
http://www.redstate.com/2014/06/09/wisconsin-police-chief-harasses-tea-party-activist/


151 posted on 08/16/2014 11:53:29 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
You've said Limbaugh Ingraham and Malkin are wrong, as well as several reasonable freepers here you've gone after.

Problem is, We're not wrong, you and Jesse and Al are. Like my Jim Robinson endorsed tagline says, you f-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy

152 posted on 08/16/2014 11:53:48 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
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To: oh8eleven; Cubs Fan

union protects cop who idiotically crashed into private boat:

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/04/09/d-c-officer-taken-off-harbor-duty-after-boating-accident/


153 posted on 08/16/2014 11:56:14 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Cubs Fan

you can keep crying to the teacher if you are so insecure as to have to…..and you are probably technically retarded to think I agree with Jesse and Al. I am not saying a damned thing about the racial aspect of this.

But go ahead and be a dumb ass sheep: this will come to a neighborhood near you and bite you on your pompous ass:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Boston+Strong+militarized+police&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=manvU_CrK4T5yQS72YCAAg&ved=0CB4QsAQ&biw=1264&bih=708


154 posted on 08/16/2014 11:57:58 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Cubs Fan

and to clarify, yet another of your kindergarten reading mistakes, I have said that perhaps Limbaugh and Ingraham and some others are behind some of their listeners.

You think I’m the only former law and order conservative who has re-thought my feelings towards LEOs??? If you do, you’re dumber than I thought.


155 posted on 08/16/2014 11:59:30 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: oh8eleven

the naivete is astonishing……many cops are union thugs first now. Many are anti second amendment now. Many harrass tea party groups now. Many think the “protect and serve” mantra is a joke. Many mock the idea they “work for us”

If you don’t see this, and don’t see the connection between this and the ATF buying ammo, the IRS arming themselves, the IRS targeting conservatives, the BLM having an army - then you perhaps are over your head on a political forum.


156 posted on 08/16/2014 12:02:35 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
"The majority of people with paranoid schizophrenia ... also have delusions of personal grandeur - a false belief that they are much greater and more powerful and influential than they really are."
"... may spend a disproportionate amount of time thinking up ways of protecting themselves from their persecutors." My treat! Have a niiiiiice day. LOL ...
157 posted on 08/16/2014 12:58:44 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: KeyLargo

These idiots have no clue do they? The cops are wearing such gear because of the very obvious threat to their safety.


158 posted on 08/16/2014 12:58:57 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: oh8eleven

so thoroughly defeated in the debate, and with your reading comprehension problems exposed, you change the subject……

you lose, bigtime. Now go back to your cop union meeting and continue the liberal slimy technique of lying about your opponent’s position.


159 posted on 08/16/2014 1:05:38 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
...think I agree with Jesse and Al. I am not saying a damned thing about the racial aspect of this.

Yeah, that's the aspect these old-timers forget. The LEFT only cares about out-of-control cops when there's a racial angle. Otherwise, they cheer the police state! They're all for the militarization. The unionization. (What was the Clinton cop-hiring program?) During the Bundy face-off they were itching for a conflagration.

The idea that the Left is anti-LE is 100% backwards and based on attitudes from the '60s.

160 posted on 08/16/2014 1:26:50 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Peace On Earth! Purity of Essence! McCain/Ripper 2016)
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