+- Forums (http://rightwingers.org/forums)
+-- Forum: Politics and Policies (http://rightwingers.org/forums/forum-4.html)
+--- Forum: Gun violence (http://rightwingers.org/forums/forum-20.html)
+--- Thread: Turns out, police fatalities are way down.. (/thread-1299.html)
Turns out, police fatalities are way down.. - Admin - 07-19-2016
From The BBC
Looking at the 10 years from 2006 to 2015 the annual average number of police deaths was 49.6, Stoughton says, which he notes is "down significantly from the high".
[attachment=1]
"The high was the 10-year period prior to 1980, when we had an average of 115 - actually 114.8 officers feloniously killed… in the line of duty every year."
At the same time the number of police officers has increased dramatically in the US.
[attachment=2]
At the same time the number of police officers has increased in the US. There are a quarter of a million more police officers working today than there were three decades ago.
So when you consider the number of officers killed per 100,000, there has been a dramatic decrease. The annual per capita number of officers killed has dropped from 24 per 100,000 in the 10 years to 1980 to 7.3 per 100,000 in the 10 years to 2013 (the last year for which there is good data).
This chimes with a bigger trend, which is a steady reduction in crime, including homicides.
RE: Turns out, police fatalities are way down.. - Admin - 07-19-2016
And it's not only the police, despite all the rhetoric..
Quote:"Are you safer than you were eight years ago?" That, according to Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), the House Homeland Security Committee chair who spoke Monday night in Cleveland, is the key question in this election. If you judge that question in terms of the rate of incidence of murder or violent crime more broadly, the answer is that yes, Americans are safer in 2016 than they were in 2008. But this kind of dull, plodding fact was not the kind of thing the convention’s Make America Safe Again evening dwelled on. Nor was anyone inclined to mention that illegal immigration has fallen to its lowest level in more than 40 years.4 winners and 4 losers from the first night of the Republican National Convention - Vox