thedailysheeple.com / by Carey Wedler,
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Editor’s Note: Wedler writes, “If you want the ‘war on police’ to end, you’re in luck…” Yeah, considering there was never a war on cops to begin with.
“The war on our police must end,” Donald Trump forcefully demandedduring a speech in Wisconsin in August. “It must end now.”
This sentiment is often parroted by right-wing outlets and savored by cop-loving Americans who should (according to what’s left of their ideological principles) harbor the utmost skepticism toward institutions of government.
Yet no matter how many times the mythical war on cops is refuted, the perception of a brutal war on police officers persists, especially in light of recent, highly-publicized attacks on law enforcement this summer — the ultimately predictable result of repeated instances in which citizens, often minorities, were unnecessarily killed by police officers.
But according to the FBI’s most recent installment of its annual “Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted” report, the paranoid trope of a war on cops is entirely unfounded. So unfounded, in fact, that more police officers died by accident than were killed as a result of “felonious” behavior, as the FBI calls it.
That’s right.
In 2015, the latest year for which the FBI has analyzed data, 41 police officers died as a result of the felonious actions of others. Forty-five died in accidents — 40 of which were attributable to traffic and/or automobile-related incidents.
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