Texas, with 13, experienced the most law enforcement officer fatalities during the first half of the year. North Carolina, which had no line-of-duty deaths during 2006, had eight fatalities during the first six months of this year. Florida and New York had six deaths each, and Georgia and South Carolina each had five.
I'm not sure what's going on here. For whatever reason, it seems like more suicidal or disturbed people are deciding to involve or attack the police before they off themselves. Some of the officers I know have told me that interactions with people seem to turn hostile more quickly than in the past. I wonder if it's just a societal change, where symbols of authority are being targeted.
Sad and disturbing news. May these heroes rest in peace with God.
The numbers have been so low (statistically) that any change seems magnified.
1 + 1 is “only 2”. But that’s a large increase in terms of percentage.
This loss of life is totally unacceptable, clearly we have crime “quagmire” and the war against crime is unwinnable.
All police officers should be “redeployed” off the streets back to their police stations immediately. We do not want another single life lost by American law enforcement on our streets.
Make sense, doesn’t it?
Could it be that the masses are tired of police enforcing nanny-state laws and don't like it?
I wonder how many of these police officers were killed by illegal aliens? And how many of these illegals fled to Mexico to escape prosecution?
I would like to know how many of these deaths occurred in response to a call or during a "hot pursuit" of someone who was actually a danger to society before the chase began. Nearly every day I see a LEO driving with one hand, well above the posted speed limit, while talking on a cell phone (all illegal in New York), even though they are on routine patrol and not responding to a call or in hot pursuit at the time. Perhaps if LEO obeyed the laws they are entrusted to enforce, there would not be as many highway deaths.