Friday, October 3, 2014

2013 Safest Year Since WWII for Cops


Once again: police work is NOT getting more dangerous




"You’re more likely to be murdered simply by living in about half of the largest cities in America than you are while working as a police officer.”

 "We’re continuing to see stories alleging that police work is getting increasingly dangerous. I suspect we’ll see even more of this as the search for accused Pennsylvania cop killer Eric Frein continues, and then again as the year winds down."

 "Policing has been getting safer for 20 years. In terms of raw number of deaths, 2013 was the safest year for cops since World War II. If we look at the rate of deaths, 2013 was the safest year for police in well over a century. At the current pace, we can expect to see a 17 percent increase in on the job law enforcement fatalities this year over last year. That would put the total number of police officers who die on the job this year at 117, making 2014 the second safest year for cops in terms of raw fatalities since 1959. It would also put 2014 as the safest year for fatality rates in over a century."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/02/once-again-police-work-is-not-getting-more-dangerous/

So,why are cops in every podunk city and town all across the country getting their own MRAP's, .mil M-4's, .mil M-40 and M-24  -(modified Remington 700 sniper rifles)- $5,000.00 Nightforce scopes,?
Why do all these small towns have SWAT teams? Why do sheriff's dept's need to serve warrants for non-violent crimes dressed in all their tacticool .mil gear?

Since it is a fact that being a police officer has been becoming safer for at least the past 20 years,why does every PD need all this .mil gear?

What needs to be totaled up,and compared year to year is the number of people shot and killed by police.
That information does not seem to be available for some reason...


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