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Related: About this forumPolice Fatality Statistics Show 2012 On Pace To Be Safest Year For Police In 60 Years!
It's been a little more than a year since media outlets and police organizations first started reporting about a mounting "war on cops." Law enforcement officials and commentators blamed budget shortfalls, anti-government sentiment, gun ownership and other causes for the rising violence against police.
We're now about halfway through 2012, and this year is on pace to be the safest ever for America's police officers. Oddly, no one is reporting it.
Fifty officers have died on duty so far this year, a 44-percent decrease from last year, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF). More remarkably, 17 have died from gunfire, down 55 percent from last year. (21 died in traffic accidents, the remaining 12 in various other incidents.) If the second half of this year follows the first, fewer officers will have died on duty this year than in any year since 1944, a time when there were far, far fewer police officers.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/police-fatality-statistics-2012_b_1619725.html
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Police Fatality Statistics Show 2012 On Pace To Be Safest Year For Police In 60 Years! (Original Post)
Logical
Sep 2012
OP
Even with the AWB lapse and increasing numbers of legally owned guns
4th law of robotics
Sep 2012
#4
I've noticed that the people who are most eager to claim "gun = penis"
4th law of robotics
Sep 2012
#8
ileus
(15,396 posts)1. We lost a couple of troopers this past week.
http://wvgazette.com/News/policeblotter/201209040038
I say we because I work and am used to live in WV.
It's nice to see it being a safer year for our LEO's, hopefully it will continue to improve in the months that are left this year.
I say we because I work and am used to live in WV.
It's nice to see it being a safer year for our LEO's, hopefully it will continue to improve in the months that are left this year.
rDigital
(2,239 posts)2. This is a great thing. I hope we continue on this trend. nt
Simo 1939_1940
(768 posts)3. Great news - may it continue. NT
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)4. Even with the AWB lapse and increasing numbers of legally owned guns
Are there any claims from the gun-prohibitionists that haven't been entirely debunked by empirical evidence?
rDigital
(2,239 posts)5. The facts matter not. Guns are inherently evil and need to be banned. nt
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)6. I thought the gun was good, but the penis was evil?
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)7. Guns are penises
please recalibrate your equipment accordingly.
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)8. I've noticed that the people who are most eager to claim "gun = penis"
are particularly weary of black guns deeming them more dangerous and more violent than other colored guns.
Hmm . . .