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CrackityJones75

(2,403 posts) Mon Apr 26, 2021, 02:08 PM Apr 2021

I would like to know

I would like to know how often cops are shot at or even seriously threatened with harm. Are there any statistics? Because it sure seems to be out of scope for the number of cops getting injured ir killed versus poc being shot and killed. Even more so how often is a cop shot or injured ina situation where a gun may have helped them.

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I would like to know (Original Post) CrackityJones75 Apr 2021 OP

Here is a story about a cop killer. Usually reports are made about line of duty killings when ShazamIam Apr 2021 #1

ShazamIam

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1. Here is a story about a cop killer. Usually reports are made about line of duty killings when

Reply to CrackityJones75 (Original post)

Mon Apr 26, 2021, 02:31 PM

Apr 2021

there is a push to give police more power, or money.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/06/air-force-sergeant-who-allegedly-killed-cop-in-ambush-now-charged-with-assassinating-federal-officer/

Sometimes they are killed at traffic stops. One recent one.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/us/tulsa-oklahoma-police-dead-traffic-stop-shooting/index.html

The problem with U.S. policing is that poor people are the targets of law enforcement, it is as if we are to pretend the wealthy commit no crimes. Kind of like the old time Puritaincalfvinistic thinking, good people get rich the poor and wretched are sinners not favored with wealth by Jesus and get hell on earth.

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