FBI: 50,000 Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted Last Year
NEWSMAX
On Nov. 24, the day news broke that a grand jury had declined
to indict a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, who shot and killed a
teenager he said was attacking him, the FBI reported that 76 law
enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty in 2013.
Another 49,851 officers, 136 a day, were assaulted while on duty last year, according to the FBI report.
Of the officers who were attacked, 14,565, or 29.2 percent, were
injured, and 31.2 percent of the injured officers were attacked while
responding to a disturbance call, such as domestic disputes or a bar
fight.
According to the FBI, assailants used hands, fists, or feet in about
80 percent of cases, firearms in 4.5 percent, knives or other cutting
tools in 1.8 percent, and other weapons in the rest of the cases.
For the 15th straight year, the largest percentage of attacks on officers occurred between midnight and 2 a.m.
Last year 27 of the 76 officers killed in the line of duty died in
"felonious acts," and of those officers, 26 were shot and one was hit by
a vehicle. Most of the officers killed accidentally in the line of duty
were killed in car crashes.
The average age of the officers killed in felonies was 39. Two were female, 25 were white, and two were black.
According to CNS News, the FBI report was based on data collected
from 11,468 law enforcement agencies employing 533,895 officers.
AND…being a white man I respect and honor all those who are killed in the line of duty; regardless of their sex or color or anything else. That is the difference here, white people admire order, and law, and justice; black people generally do not. Half of the blacks of America have become paranoid of police. They have been fed lies by the left which has left them paranoid and thinking they are the victims no matter what crime is committed. Any person with half a brain knows that Wilson justifiably shot Brown. If a black had done that to a thug white, I would have given him a medal.
ReplyDeleteI bet the media cannot name even one of those who died in the line of duty!
May they rest in peace!