“I am as pro-cop as anyone on this site, but we have to be careful interpreting all harmful encounters by cops as the war on cops. Surely those ambushes were, but cops are assaulted every day in America. Internet news makes it appear worse than it is, and three cops out of the hundreds of thousands out there working at any time, is statistically zero. I am not saying we shouldn’t be concerned, but let’s keep it in proportion.”
About 55 police are killed by violence every year, on average, so that’s about one a week.
I heard today that the police line of duty death rate is up 72% this year
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