National police union leader says erosion of respect fueling attacks on officers
December 8, 2021 | District of Columbia, Illinois, Virginia
A national police union leader says the uptick in shootings and ambush-style attacks targeting police this year is linked to growing hostility toward law enforcement.
A report for 2021 published last week by the National Fraternal Order of Police showed 314 officers had been shot in the line of duty through November — the most in the past three years, with another month to go.
The union said 312 officers were shot in all of 2020, 293 in 2019, and 237 in 2018. The report said 58 of the officers shot this year died, up from 47 in 2020 and 50 in 2019.
The FBI’s annual report on U.S. Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, first published in 1996, shows that all but four of the 55 police officers killed while on the job that year were gunned down….(Excerpts from the Washington Times)
