Good, as you expressed my sentiments exactly. I am pleased to see that you do realize what you're talking about is rhetoric, not action. Rhetoric without action is called empty rhetoric, hence, no open season. However, if you're truly concerned about the rhetoric, you might want to consider the fact that calmly shooting an unarmed man running away 8 times in the back, lying about it, and planting evidence in an attempted cover-up --behavior that would put the rest of us in prison-- while it may not trouble you, outrages most people, and is exactly the kind of behavior that results in anti LEO rhetoric and sentiment.Jim Beaux wrote:Your "actual statistics" have no bearing in regards to the anti LEO rhetoric/sentiment/political movement being directed at our police. As I am familiar with your posts, I will not engage further with you on this subject.VMI77 wrote: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.Jim Beaux wrote:SNIPVMI77 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.
http://nypost.com/2014/10/16/open-seaso ... -in-sight/Open season on cops & no end in sight
But now the police are the city’s No. 1 whipping boy.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/12 ... xecutions/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.nydailynews.com/new-york/exc ... -1.2036616NYPD cops warned militant group Black Guerilla Family ‘preparing to shoot on-duty police officers’
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.
The best way to prevent anti LEO rhetoric and sentiment from becoming a problem is for law enforcement to obey the law and the US Constitution, and when some don't, for the rest of law enforcement to hold them to account, and for those transgressing to be appropriately punished....appropriate punishment being punishment at least as severe as those of us without the training, arrest powers, and resources of law enforcement would receive for the same crime.