Friday, December 30, 2016

POLICE KILLINGS AND AMBUSHES UP IN 2016

Although the figures are up over last year, this is not a record.  The record for police officer deaths was set in 1974. Since then, the overall trend has been down.
 "The Dallas ambush was the deadliest day for law enforcement since Sept. 11, 2001. That bloodshed, coupled with another attack days later in Baton Rouge, helped fuel an increase this year in the number of police officers slain in the line of duty, a tally pushed upward by a surge in ambush attacks and other shootings."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/12/29/ambushes-and-fatal-shootings-fuel-increase-in-police-death-toll-this-year/?utm_term=.a1927c7534cf

See also
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/27/number-of-law-enforcement-officers-fatally-shot-this-year-up-significantly-after-ambush-attacks-report-says/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.d385d62e0fcb

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