Seattle police kill black woman after she calls for help

[Lee-Lee]

19. There is a catch-22 in your above statement

People like to point out that the number of line of duty deaths is declining as a reason to oppose many police tactics or polive being so defensive.

But at the same time those tactics are designed to reduce police deaths and injuries, so the declining rate of those events is due in good part to the same tactics people say are unneeded because of the decline.

That's not the only reason for the decline in deaths. It also has a lot to do with much better advances in medical treatment, faster medical treatment and much better communications allowing help to be called faster.

The job hasn't become safer. Assaults on police officers are the same or rising, they just result in death less often.