The Los Angeles Times reports:
The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, a nonprofit group that tracks police deaths, posted figures showing 83 officers have died while on duty so far this year, 10 more than in the same period last year. But, as is typical, traffic accidents have been the most common cause of police deaths and the 25 officers killed in assaults so far this year is about even with 2014, which had seen a sharp rise from the year before, according to the group’s figures.
Statistics compiled by the FBI show the number of officers “feloniously killed” each year has fluctuated somewhat over the last decade, but it stands at about 50.
Numbers, however, don’t tell the whole story, police said. Whether or not violence toward police is up this year, officers said attacks on law enforcement are playing out in a new atmosphere of amplified animosity, in which cops are routinely vilified — fairly or not — by a public on Twitter, YouTube and other social media sites. Read the entire LA Times piece here.
However, the media hypes the killing of officers and gives undue attention to violent groups like Black Lives Matter that simply exist to fan the flames of anarchy and hate.
