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VMI77 wrote:

Jim Beaux wrote:SNIP

VMI77 wrote:A family? A family of psychopaths. That was an organized melee not a family altercation.

But an open season on LEO's, not hardly. Per capita and total officer deaths are down significantly from 90-100 years ago when the population was less than one third of what it is today. In 1914 there were 116 LEO deaths among a US population of roughly 99 million. In 2014 there were 117 LEO deaths. With one exception in 2001, LEO deaths have been less than the 215 LEO deaths recorded in 1919 since 1979. The 20s and early 30s were two of the bloodiest decades for LEOs in US history.

Open season on cops & no end in sight

But now the police are the city’s No. 1 whipping boy.

http://nypost.com/2014/10/16/open-seaso ... -in-sight/

FIVE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS on Police and Firefighters since NYC Executions
Since the execution of two New York City policemen the Saturday before Christmas, there have been at least four assassination attempts on police officers and firefighters as well as the killings of two police officers who were fatally shot responding to calls.

Also, police have been attacked at crime scenes by angry mobs.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/12 ... xecutions/

NYPD cops warned militant group Black Guerilla Family ‘preparing to shoot on-duty police officers’

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exc ... -1.2036616

Those are what you call "anecdotes." That's why I gave actual statistics and the source, rather the clickbaiting headlines and media hysteria. Most everything in the media serves an agenda. Blogs like gatewaypundit are all agenda. The source I gave is a pro-cop source. If you look, it also has the stats for the first quarter of 2015....there is no evidence of any open season as claimed by sensationalist media and politicians and sensational headlines --in fact, for the first quarter over 2014, gunshot deaths are down 33%, but traffic fatalities are up 14%....a little early for establishing a trend, but nonetheless, no evidence for a claim of open season.

Reality has no effect on the MSM or politicians or many blog writers. They have an agenda and reality only interferes. The data on this subject is clear and without ambiguity. It was more dangerous to be a LEO 90 years ago...much more dangerous...than it is today. Hyperbolic rhetoric is still just rhetoric...action and facts speak for themselves.

VMI77 wrote:A family? A family of psychopaths. That was an organized melee not a family altercation.

But an open season on LEO's, not hardly. Per capita and total officer deaths are down significantly from 90-100 years ago when the population was less than one third of what it is today. In 1914 there were 116 LEO deaths among a US population of roughly 99 million. In 2014 there were 117 LEO deaths. With one exception in 2001, LEO deaths have been less than the 215 LEO deaths recorded in 1919 since 1979. The 20s and early 30s were two of the bloodiest decades for LEOs in US history.

Open season on cops & no end in sight

But now the police are the city’s No. 1 whipping boy.

FIVE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS on Police and Firefighters since NYC Executions
Since the execution of two New York City policemen the Saturday before Christmas, there have been at least four assassination attempts on police officers and firefighters as well as the killings of two police officers who were fatally shot responding to calls.

Also, police have been attacked at crime scenes by angry mobs.

NYPD cops warned militant group Black Guerilla Family ‘preparing to shoot on-duty police officers’

The Christian family band that brawled with police in an Arizona Walmart parking lot were not slowed down by repeated hits from Tasers, pepper spray and batons, newly released dashcam video shows.

The fighting stopped only after a 21-year-old member of the Gaver family was fatally shot, his brother was struck in the stomach and a cop took a bullet to the leg.

The melee broke out March 21 after eight officers responded to a report that a member of the Gaver family — which had been living out of their car in the parking lot — had pushed a Walmart employee in a store bathroom, police said.

When police tried to separate the family band for questioning, they attacked, Cottonwood Police Chief Jody Fanning said Friday.

Cops tried to subdue six Gavers with Tasers and pepper spray. But the family rolled on the ground to break Taser strings, wiped pepper spray away and got right back up, Fanning said.

"I've personally never seen that tactic applied, Fanning said, according to CNN. "Somebody has taught them that."