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NYPD-Style Assassination Attempted on Durham Police Officer.....

If we did or said nothing, that would still be the case.

THEY SHOOT EACH OTHER REGULARLY



Heya WCH. :2wave: Cops get shot and killed regularly and that doesn't count all the assaults upon them.




Police Killed By Guns Up 56% in 2014.....

A new report out found a sharp rise in the number of police officers killed by guns in 2014, including 15 of what the Associated Press calls "ambush" shootings.
As the Associated Press reports: The number of law enforcement officers killed by firearms jumped by 56 percent this year and included 15 ambush deaths... In 2011, 73 officers were killed in gunfire, the most in any year in the past decade. The average since 2004 is 55 police deaths annually.

In all, the report found that 126 federal, local, tribal and territorial officers were killed in the line of duty in 2014. That's a 24 percent jump from last year's 102 on-duty deaths, though below the average annual figures since 2004 and the all-time high of 156 in 1973, said Steve Groeninger, a spokesman for the memorial fund. Of the 126 officer deaths this year, shootings were the leading cause, followed by traffic-related fatalities, at 49.....snip~

Police Killed By Guns Up 56% in 2014 - Kevin Glass
 
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