Posted on Jan 8, 2024
‘A Stain On Our Society’: Record Number Of Police Shot In 2023, Report Finds | The Daily Wire
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There was a record-breaking number of law enforcement officers shot in the line of duty in 2023, according to report from the National Fraternal Order of Police. In 2023, there were 378 officers shot, a 60% increase since the FOP began tracking data back in 2018. The data also showed that 46 police officers were killed. National Fraternal Order of Police: 115 ambush attacks that resulted in 138 officers shot. 46 officers murdered by gunfire. These horrifying statistics are a grim reminder of the War on Cops in this country. A stain on our society
‘A Stain On Our Society’: Record Number Of Police Shot In 2023, Report Finds | The Daily Wire
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Lt Col Charlie Brown Very sad that we are losing so many law enforcement personnel and they wonder why recruitment numbers of new police officers are low.
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MSG Thomas Currie
I doubt that danger has any significant impact on recruitment or retention (at least for anyone who belongs wearing the badge). The biggest problem hurting retention is a lack of support from both the community and local politicians. The retention problem hurts recruitment because so many new police recruits have always been either from families with a long police tradition or individuals influenced by officers they knew.
Departments that cannot retain their own officers are raising salaries and dropping standards - which still isn't enough to keep the numbers up but which exacerbates the lack of support be attracting recruits who shouldn't be wearing the badge.
The result is a cycle where departments lose good officers and bring in mediocre or bad officers to try to fill the gap -- which further erodes support for the police.
Departments that cannot retain their own officers are raising salaries and dropping standards - which still isn't enough to keep the numbers up but which exacerbates the lack of support be attracting recruits who shouldn't be wearing the badge.
The result is a cycle where departments lose good officers and bring in mediocre or bad officers to try to fill the gap -- which further erodes support for the police.
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Over the past decade, activists have consistently railed against our "militarized" police and called for them to be kinder and gentler. Seemingly every single police involved shooting was publicly investigated, and started with the presumption of guilt.
In that environment, cops are more likely to hesitate before pulling the trigger - or even before pulling their gun. Is it any surprise that this hesitation is causing more police deaths?
Now, before people mistake what I am saying, I am *not* calling for cops to have conplete freedom to abuse citizens. I am *not* calling for creation of a SWAT team in Podunk, Kentucky. I am *not* calling for shoot-first-ask-questions-later policing. And I a *not* saying that scrutiny over cops - both individual actors and policies and procedures - is a bad thing.
I am pointing out cause and effect. And this effect - record police deaths - will likely serve as a cause of its own. I, the Great Kreskin, predict that I 2024, the pendulum will START to swing the other way, as police get more serious about protecting themselves. As a result, police deaths will rise again, but only very slightly. And accusations of police brutality / bad shoots / etc. will also start to rise, for the same reason.
In that environment, cops are more likely to hesitate before pulling the trigger - or even before pulling their gun. Is it any surprise that this hesitation is causing more police deaths?
Now, before people mistake what I am saying, I am *not* calling for cops to have conplete freedom to abuse citizens. I am *not* calling for creation of a SWAT team in Podunk, Kentucky. I am *not* calling for shoot-first-ask-questions-later policing. And I a *not* saying that scrutiny over cops - both individual actors and policies and procedures - is a bad thing.
I am pointing out cause and effect. And this effect - record police deaths - will likely serve as a cause of its own. I, the Great Kreskin, predict that I 2024, the pendulum will START to swing the other way, as police get more serious about protecting themselves. As a result, police deaths will rise again, but only very slightly. And accusations of police brutality / bad shoots / etc. will also start to rise, for the same reason.
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These horrifying statistics are a grim reminder that there are more guns in our country than people, and that our cops are increasingly outgunned in their own communities. A stain on our society.
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SFC Casey O'Mally
It's weird, sir. I don't carry. I am outgunned everywhere I go outside of my home. And I ain'tn't ded yet (nod to the late, great, Terry Pratchett).
Guns don't kill people, people kill people.
I don't carry, but I do own a rifle that I keep in my home. And I have YET to shoot anyone with that rifle. I fully suspect - and hope - I will die without ever having shot anyone with that rifle. I guarantee I could grab that thing and kill AT LEAST 3 people, including 1 cop, before I was either incapacitated or killed. But I haven't done so. It's almost like the gun OWNER is far more important in gun deaths than the gun itself.
Like I said, weird.
Guns don't kill people, people kill people.
I don't carry, but I do own a rifle that I keep in my home. And I have YET to shoot anyone with that rifle. I fully suspect - and hope - I will die without ever having shot anyone with that rifle. I guarantee I could grab that thing and kill AT LEAST 3 people, including 1 cop, before I was either incapacitated or killed. But I haven't done so. It's almost like the gun OWNER is far more important in gun deaths than the gun itself.
Like I said, weird.
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