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Reading further, it's actually 50 officers who were killed by firearm in 2014, and it's not clear whether that number includes suicides. This number is trendin
by samcheng 11y ago
Reading further, it's actually 50 officers who were killed by firearm in 2014, and it's not clear whether that number includes suicides.
This number is trending downwards since in the mid-seventies.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/u-s-police-officer-shooting-deaths-56-percent-2014-report-n276811 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/u-s-police-officer-...
- ams6110 11y agoWould guess the downward trend is due to more widespread use of body armor. I seldom if ever see a uniformed cop who's not wearing a vest.
- samcheng 11y agoActually, gun violence has been on a downward trend since the early nineties across the entire population. You'd expect police firearm fatalities to trend downward accordingly, regardless of the use of body armor. Police wearing body armor, armored cars, AR-15s, and the like are part of a different trend: the militarization of US police using surplus equipment from the Department of Defense, in a DOD program 1033. http://www.propublica.org/article/the-best-reporting-on-the-federal-push-to-militarize-local-police http://www.propublica.org/article/the-best-reporting-on-the-...