"Killing of Police Officers Down for Second Year"

[Dawson Leery]

http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/24/killing-of-police-officers-down-for-seco?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FHitandRun+%28Reason+Online+-+Hit+%26+Run+Blog%29

[Glassunion]

1. K&R

[jwirr]

2. Does it break this stat down into categories? Racial killings, unarmed victims, killing for trivial

crimes such as jaywalking, shopping in a toy aisle, selling a loose cigarette out of your own pack, being disabled, being homeless, playing with a BB gun?

It is obvious that due to the nature of their job there are times they have no choice but to kill but if they break it down into other categories I think the picture will look different.

Has police aggression increased regarding small crimes? Are they properly trained regarding persons with disabilities? Do they see themselves as the protector of the poor as well as the rich? Do they act as if they are in a combat zone instead of interacting with citizens of the USA? Are they armed as if they are in a combat zone?

[uppityperson]

3. The OP is about cops being killed, not killing.

[jwirr]

4. Which is the proof that sometimes they do need to protect themselves. I did not understand the

title.

[uppityperson]

10. Everybody needs to protect themselves. And no worries, I've misread stuff too. nt

[Glassunion]

11. I don't think the OP is about that.

I believe from reading the linked article, that the OP is about the contrast of the dropping statistics of police being killed, vs the rise in police killings.

2nd paragraph of the article...

But it goes against the trend of how many people officers themselves have killed. Police fatally shot 461 people in 2013, a trend that's been increasing for the past three years and has reached a two-decade high.

[hobbit709]

5. But killing BY police officers is up.

[HereSince1628]

6. If people will just not call 911 for help with mentally ill family members

we can cut that number AND leave more police on the street to deal with cigar thieves.

[djean111]

7. Calling the police - nowadays, a roll of the dice.

I have had to tell my grandson - 19 yo, 6'3", 280 pounds - to never answer the door with ANYTHING in his hands.
My son has PTSD and I honestly feel a call to the police would be tantamount to having him killed.

[HereSince1628]

8. and the dice are loaded...

I hope your grandson stays leveled out and never has to encounter police while he's struggling with an extreme.

[djean111]

9. It is his dad who has PTSD. Although he and I have the problems associated with those

who live with someone who has PTSD. I have no doubt that the police would find it easier to shoot my son when he is having an episode.