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Title: There *Still* Wasn't a War on Cops in 2017
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Reason
URL Source: https://reason.com/blog/2017/12/28/ ... ll-wasnt-a-war-on-cops-in-2017
Published: Dec 28, 2017
Author: Ed Krayewski
Post Date: 2017-12-29 07:21:03 by Deckard
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Comments: 2
Preliminary data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) finds that 128 police officers died in the line of duty in 2017—44 of them were fatally shot. Last year 64 officers were fatally shot. And since 2011, the numbers have largely gone down. In the meantime, police have fatally shot 971 people so far this year—the youngest of them just 6 years old. Last year, 963 people were fatally shot by cops. Because the numbers include a wide variety of deaths, they are easy to misrepresent. The broad number, which includes traffic and other accidents as well as illnesses (mostly heart disease), is used to support claims that "a cop is killed every so many hours. In 2014, Michelle Malkin claimed a cop was killed every 58 hours, using line-of- duty death statistics that included heart attacks, traffic accidents, and even accidental falls. The claims that a public backlash demanding police accountability has lead to violence against cops are divorced from reality. There were slightly more police deaths in 2011, long before police reform gained any substantive national attention, than in 2016. And 2016 didn't compare to the annus horribilis that was 2007, when 204 cops died in the line of duty, 67 of them shot. The 10-year high for line of duty deaths was 180 dead cops in 2011, of which 68 were shot, according to the Officers Down Memorial Page, which offers more detailed historical data than NLEOMF. And none of those numbers compares to those posted in the 1970s and 1980s—145 cops were shot and killed in 1975 alone. The NLEOMF is not yet offering a detailed breakdown of the deaths. Aside from the 44 cops who were shot, 47 died in traffic-related incidents and 37 of "other causes." For comparison, the leading "other cause" in 2016 was "job-related illness," which killed 15 police officers, according to NLEOMF. Line of duty deaths this year approached a 50-year low
Claims by police apologists that a "war on cops" ensued from a reform movement that emerged after the shooting of Michael Brown in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri has no statistical support. 
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/12/28/number-officers-killed-2017-hits-nearly-50-year-low/984477001/ It would appear then that there is a war on citizens being waged by cops. The numbers of people killed by officers actually jumped from 963 in 2016 to 971 this year, according to data compiled by The Washington Post.
#2. To: hondo68 (#1)
The numbers of people killed by officers actually jumped from 963 in 2016 to 971 this year, according to data compiled by The Washington Post.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
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