Killings of Police Officers Are Up 28% So Far in 2020: Reports
Source: Law & Crime
The killing of a Washington State police officer on July 13 marked the death of the 32nd U.S. law enforcement officer in 2020 a year which has seen violent protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd and a 28% increase in felonious officer deaths over the same period in 2019. Thats according to ABC News, which cited a review of FBI data. Seven of those 32 officers were ambushed, the report says.
Accompanying the cries for police reform in the wake of Floyds death was a rise in an anti-police sentiment that, experts say, manifested itself in attacks on officers, patrol vehicles and precinct stationhouses, leaving cops around the country feeling under siege, ABC said.
It is unclear to some experts whether correlation necessarily means causation: though the Floyd death and the spike in officer deaths are temporally related, a professor of political science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York told ABC that it is probably too early to draw a direct link between the two data points.
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ABCs review found that police killings this year were primarily . . . linked to traffic stops and responses to domestic violence calls, but that FBI data doesnt directly link the slayings to . . . civil unrest or anti-police rhetoric.
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/police/killings-of-police-officers-are-up-28-so-far-in-2020-reports/
Hip2bSquare
(291 posts)I am somewhat grateful to that last part, FBI data doesnt directly link the slayings to . . . civil unrest or anti-police rhetoric". Definitely not the answer to combat police brutality. However, I definitely can understand the increase in domestic violence. People are stuck at home, losing income, possibly headed towards eviction! Tempers and emotions are growing. It's a tough time. I hate police brutality, but definitely don't want to see police killed.
JustFiveMoreMinutes
(2,133 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)I think that would help frame the story more fully.
DENVERPOPS
(8,806 posts)my exact thoughts.
Number of innocent people killed by Police vs police killed........
Now THAT would be a revealing comparison......
christx30
(6,241 posts)But as long as more whites are killed than blacks its not a big deal to anyone in charge.
Deuce
(959 posts)Don't know much about this source but it has a breakdown since 2017..
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
EX500rider
(10,835 posts)oldsoftie
(12,527 posts)I saw this on FB & someone actually posted "well they know its dangerous when they sign up"
DENVERPOPS
(8,806 posts)get "armed" after they are shot/dead..........
EX500rider
(10,835 posts)Don't trust my comment about "throw away" guns and knives!!!.......
EX500rider
(10,835 posts)Plus there is usually enough video evidence from dash cams, street cams, body cams etc.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)shit happens
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,563 posts)turns out to have been shot by the other officer on the scene... ..
lostnfound
(16,170 posts)JT45242
(2,260 posts)If you talk to an honest cop -- he or she will tell you that the scariest calls are domestic violence calls. They are the most likely to end up with a dead officer.
Usually it is called in by a neighbor (not the victim, who is often to scared to stand up for themselves). Which means it was (a) loud enough that they heard it and (b) scary enough that they called the police or (c) frequent enough that they knew it was coming.
Throw in lax gun laws including (R) and NRA fights against taking guns from domestic abusers (the most likely group to commit homicide) and you have a recipe for disaster.
To that mix -- add Covid lockdowns which limit the separation of abuser and victim. No trips to the bar to get his fight on. No spending 8-12 hours at work. No hanging with his buds (I know I am stereoptying, but overwhelmingly these abusers who use guns and kill cops are men with histories of violence). Plus the neighbors also locked down hearing the abuse over and over again. And, no easy way to run to a shelter because the abuser is there 24/7.
What do you have -- increased deaths to cops and to domestic violence victims.
Aristus
(66,311 posts)n/t
oldsoftie
(12,527 posts)My comeback is usually posting stories about deaths of people where no-knock warrants were served at the WRONG HOUSE
"What law did he/she break?"
Usually no response
Gilbert Moore
(218 posts)an officer shoots a civvy every 5 days. . . 73 a year. ONE state.
I am extremely sympathetic of safety of police. I had a cuz who was gunned down in the line of duty. Yet if we look at statistics, if someone brings them up, we have a duty to look at the bigger picture.
From the FBI, in 2019 in all of the USA, there were 89 law enforcement officers were killed in line-of-duty incidents in 2019. Of these, 48 officers died as a result of felonious acts, and 41 officers died in accidents.
jb5150
(1,178 posts)there was an incident where a police officer dumped a paralyzed man out of his wheelchair. After that, I stopped giving a shit about police officers.
IronLionZion
(45,418 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)then police work, but you'd never know it. Until they started working alongside work crews, I didn't hear about anyone that died while doing that. Now it's major freak-out time. I don't understand why they have taken over those jobs. Far too dangerous for them. Or maybe they need tanks to do it safely.