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New FBI Report Debunks Mythical "War On Police"
Submitted by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,
Throughout the United States, Americans believe there is a “war on police.” A recent survey found 58% of Americans agree with this sentiment. A new, privately-funded billboard campaign hijacks the “Black Lives Matter” moniker to read “Blue Lives Matter,” highlighting powerful pushback from law enforcement sympathizers against activists.
The FBI’s 2014 report, Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA), released this week, appears to support the notion that police officers are in danger and unduly targeted. The number of officers killed by individuals committing “felonious acts” jumped from 27 in 2013 to 51 last year, and police apologists are all but guaranteed to point to this increase as proof their concerns are justified. A deeper examination of the data, however, reveals that police are not only safe, but still running rampant in their liberal use of violence against the citizens they allegedly serve.
In 2013, the FBI reported that 27 police officers were killed in the line of duty. By 2014, according to the new data, that number rose to 51. While this seems like a sharp uptick — in fact, it nearly doubled — the comparison on its own is misleading. Out of 536,119 officers included in the FBI’s 2014 analysis, .0095 percent of the force was killed on the job — less than one percent. While this represents an increase from the .005 percent of officers killed on the job in 2013 — the safest year for police in decades — neither figure signals an unrelenting assault on police officers.
As the Washington Post explained:
“[W]hen police advocates say that 2014 saw an 80+ percent increase in homicides of cops over 2013, remember a few things: First, 2013 wasn’t just an all-time low, it was an all-time low by a significant margin. Second, the 2013 figure was so low that even a small increase will look large when expressed as a percentage. Third, the figure for the following year, 2014, (51 officers killed) was essentially consistent with the average for the previous five years (50 killed), and still lower than any five-year average going back to 1960. Fourth, again, 2015 is on pace (35 killings) to be lower than any year but 2013.”
The nature of the officers’ deaths also provides insight into the “war on police”. Though the total number of officers murdered did increase from 27 to 51 from 2013 to 2014, the two biggest jumps came when officers were responding to disturbance calls or making traffic stops. In 2013, the number of officers killed during disturbance calls jumped from four to eleven, while traffic stop deaths increased from two to nine. In contrast, the number of ambushes on police officers — premeditated actions intended to hurt the officers — only increased by two, from five to seven. While this is nothing to celebrate, it actually constitutes a drop in the proportion of officers killed by ambush — the most intentional way to kill, or ‘wage war against’ — a cop. In 2013, 18.5% of all felonious deaths were a result of an ambush . In 2014, 13.7% of cops who died were ambushed.
Perhaps most revealing, however, is the FBI’s data on officers “assaulted” on the job. The FBI lists a startling figure for 2014:
Of 536,119 officers included in the report, 48,315 were assaulted. With 9% of all officers having been “assaulted,” on the job, it seems impossible to deny a concerted attack against law enforcement. However, that rate is lower than the previous year (9.3%). Further, the data becomes much less daunting when considering officers who were assaulted and injured as a result of the attack. In 2014, 13,654 officers reported sustained injuries from assault: just 2.5% of the entire force. This is also a small drop from the previous year, which saw 14,565 of 533,895 total officers injured (2.7%). This is an injury rate lower than that of construction workers, who clock in at 3.8%. Further, these figures do not take into account instances where officers claimed they were assaulted but in reality were not. There seems to be great potential for this discrepancy, especially since the FBI notes that “assailants used personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.) in 79.9 percent of the incidents.”
Interestingly, in both cases of assault and murder, the majority of assailants were white. In 2014, of 54 perpetrators, 42 were Caucasian while only 12 were African American. Two were Native American, one was Asian/Pacific Islander, and two were unknown. In 2013, 15 of 28 alleged killers were white — more than half. The government’s own data on attackers refutes another common, media driven falsehood: that rabid Black Lives Matter activists are spurring attacks against police.
Regardless of the facts the FBI itself released this week, one overarching factor should be cause enough to silence those who lament a war on police: every single year, the FBI constructs its meticulous LEOKA report from thousands of police departments around the country, crafting dozens of charts and tables to break down and detail the manner in which officers died (full report here). There is currently no such system in place for regular civilians killed by police, though one community database places the total at 1,108 for 2014.
In spite this dearth of information on who the government kills, the federal government only took action this month to attempt to record police shootings and deaths caused by officers — even though this problem has crippled communities, especially minority for years, if not decades. In contrast, despite the ongoing, intensive reporting by the FBI on police deaths, President Obama signed the “Blue Alert” law earlier this year to provide for even further calculation and analysis of threats and assaults to law enforcement. There is still no official total on the number of civilians killed by police.
While many outlets in the media propagate the narrative that police officers are under attack, the government’s own data speaks for itself. Though loud voices may decry police accountability activists and millions of Americans concerned about police overreach, the FBI’s report only further justifies their outrage.
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the fbi is too busy sucking lloyd blankfein's cock
Orchard owner in Mediterranean is start new campaign, "O Lives Matter".
The only reliable conclusion I can draw from this data is that I should definitely not be a cop. If there were 48,315 assaults on cops in 2014, and 1108 civilians killed by cops in 2014, this suggests that the great majority of cops have much more restraint than I do.
I'm a middle aged man, built for comfort, not for speed. If I'm wearing a gun, and you physically assault me, I am shooting your ass.
http://killedbypolice.net
-Chumblez.
Also debunked---the myth that police disproportionately kill blacks, particularly young black men:
"Police kill more whites than blacks, but minority deaths generate more outrage"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/21/police-kill-more-whites-...
The main killer of young, black men is other young, black men.
Gun is not kill young black man, young black man is kill young black man. What is call it, genosuicide?
You do know "assault" on cops is thier favorite tack-on charge. (It should be obvious from the large number). When they tackle you and beat you down, they own the pencil, so they write it up as you assaulted them; weather you actually landed a blow or not. Sure, some desparate dudes will do anything to get away, probably a 16th to an 8th of that number, but the bulk of those "assaults" are bitchez slapping them when they grab a tit during pat down or, as stated, guys gettin beat down then the cops claim he attacked them.
"Assault" is pretty effective in forcing people to take a plea. Win-win for law & order.
wasn't there a stat floating around recently that american cops killed more people in the month of March than than U.K police have killed in a 100 years??
There is now!
Yes. As I recall 1500+ Americans are shot dead by the police each year. There is a war on Americans, not a war on police.
And most of them have to claim an assoult on them to justify their killings (and their brutalities).
No, they're too busy investigating people like me.
They can try to propagandize the Clover munchers all they want. In the end it won't make any difference. Once "authority" turns against Americans, Americans will take care of "authority".
The most important thing for these cops to understand is not to go looking for a fight. They are putting not only their own lives in jeopardy, but those of the people they work with by eroding support in their communities for the "police". Once the veneer of authority is gone, the people treat cops like anyone else and nature takes its course. If anyone is to blame, it is those cops who abuse people and bring this on everyone else's heads in the department.
+1000
Very tired of people defending, praising and adoring law enforcement in general.
"While many outlets in the media propagate the narrative that police officers are under attack, the government’s own data speaks for itself."
Apparently you junkers can't read.
For many people, the idea that the fuzz aren't like the guys on Adam-12 is still a bridge too far. This is changing and that causes mass dyspepsia in the world's largest street gang.
Stuck in the 50's. They're the ones that would vote for Santorum or Huckabee, or gladly pay to get in a time machine to the Ike years, weather it works or not.
The vast majority of police are complete narcicistic morons and sociopaths. They are being trained to fear the citizens and are being goaded into starting a conflict. If a conflict actually starts, they will be figuratively and utterly buttfucked, then skullfucked with their own weapons. Unfortunately a lot of innocents would suffer and die in that crossfire.
If you know any LEOs, try to convince them to get right with their community, liberty and those that they serve, not necessarily for their sake, but for the kids that live down the street and your family's sake.
Not the majority but enough to be a problem.
Tylers, By the way, would you please enable TLS for all logged-in commenters? This isn't 1997 anymore.
TLS?
It's the replacement to SSL. Encrypted connection
You're assuming I know what SSL means.
I'm damned near 60, I know excel, word, powerpoint and access. Beyond that I have to be educated.
I'm almost 62 and SSL means Secure Socket Layer. What's that mean? The connection between your computer and ZH is encrypted instead of the data being sent in the clear. A lot of sites you might visit don't bother with encrypted connections either. Due to the nature of what goes on at ZH, it's probably a really good idea for ZH to implement either SSL or TLS.
I use an add-on called HTTPS Everywhere to force the connection to be encrypted if available.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Check out the graph for the incarceration rate in the US. From Nixon's war on drugs it goes absolutely parabolic. It's the ultimate way to tax people. Jail and fine the shit out of the poor people and make the rest pay for it. Replace Norman Rockwell's image of a Peace Officer with some punk with PTSD from Kandahar in his camo SWAT gear...fully trained in how to occupy a populus.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._incarceration_rates_1925_on...
While this seems like a sharp uptick — in fact, it nearly doubled — the comparison on its own is misleading
Go fuck yourself. Let's reverse it - if the rate of civilians was nearly doubling, I have no doubt you would be calling this a war on people.
Why don't you go console the parents of the latest cop killing in NYC instead of writing this nonsense.
booo frigg'n hoo..... look to see what percent of farmers die, every year. we don't call for moral support and more guns because we work with dangerous animals. 50 people out of a half million in a dangerous occupation? get a grip puss.
oh but right.... we should all bow down and kiss cops asses because they are 'doing it for us' kind of like the farmers growing your damn food. war on cops my ass.......
now... if a farmer suddenly reckons that every bird and beast on the farm and ranch is extremely hateful towards him... wants him to suffer or die? maybe the farmer needs to reflect on his good sheperding abilities and admit he's doing something wrong.
no shit 7/11 midnight shift is more dangerous
Last summer I checked it out. Even with the uptick in cop killings, it's twice as safe to be a a cop as
a truck driver.
While this seems like a sharp uptick — in fact, it nearly doubled — the comparison on its own is misleading
Go fuck yourself. Let's reverse it - if the rate of civilians was nearly doubling, I have no doubt you would be calling this a war on people.
Why don't you go console the parents of the latest cop killing in NYC instead of writing this nonsense.
I tell for sure what there is a war on, there is a war on the truth.
#TruthMatters
Without getting to deep into this subject, just two things:
Get the fucking steroids out of the hands of cops ( especially the taxpayer funded steroids- http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/hundreds_of_nj_police_firefigh.... )
Next fuck most of the fake-grassroots pro cop lobbying organizations, police unions, and fake patriotism. Cops carry out the rape of the Constitution on a daily basis and there isn't any debating that.
".0095 percent of the force was killed on the job — less than one percent" No shit that's less than 1%, try less than 1% of 1%
right jam. go look up how many truck drivers die on duty, or welders, or zoo workers. cops are just pissed off because they are loosing their 'special status'. their 'job' nowdays is to punish EVERYONE for a truly ungodly amount of laws on the books. half the time the crime is merely 'contempt of cop'. piss them off and they will screw you for something they come up with.
when every single citizen in the nation breaks at least one law daily[even if they don't know they are] then cops are seen as merely predators of the system. a bit like IRS agents. anyone crying argentina for them, anymore?
Piss off a cop and they start thumping on you. When you instinctively move to protect yourself they start yelling "stop resisting" then charge you with "resisting arrest" when there was nothing to arrest you for in the first place.
It's truly Orwellian when people are changed with resisting arrest for an arrest made only for resisting arrest.
A prior military turned cop in Kansas City, MO lamented this very fact to me.
"Now we have body cams and we can't do that anymore" he said.
"If you made me run I'd beat the shit out of you, and I'd cry for help and yell to stop resisting arrest the whole time I was beating the shit out of you"
"We would get bored and shoot deer illegally" he also said. "Midnight beat would get boring and we knew we would be the ones responding to the call for gun shots."
Kansas City MO.
The article does a really bad job expressing the numbers.
It would be easier to understand if it simply said that merely 1 cop in 10,000 was killed which is, as you said, about 1% of 1%.
Being a cop is an amazingly safe job. The death rate for fishermen and loggers is ten to twelve times higher. Even taxi drivers are killed on the job at double the rate of cops.
All of this is bullshit unless we know and understand the motivations involved. How many homicides from either perspective were unprovoked? I would imagine a cop's job is not an easy one, expected to treat everyone as a law abiding citizen while knowing that some want you dead. If fishermen or loggers were expected to show consideration to the fish and the trees, imagine their losses then. Without context this is just people showing their biases. People die every day. What is important is WHY. We still have a much higher chance of dying in the hospital from something unintended than being shot by a cop. Should we close the hospitals?
Anyone except an idiot knows we have some real problems with violent criminals and it seems foolish on the face of it to immediately go after cops. As much sense as surrendering our guns because some dumb ass goes on a shooting spree. Facts matter.
As far as dealing with oppressive government power, we know where that comes from, and it comes from the top.The feds are out supporting "black Lives Matter"while also funding up armored vehicles and automatic weapons and training that over sensitizes cops to risk. We know who is creating this problem.
Anyone except an idiot knows we have some real problems with violent criminals - some of whom are cops. A cop behaving criminally is more of a threat than an ordinary POS behaving criminally and that is why we go after crooked cops.
Don't suppose those FBI statistics could be manufactured to suit some Obama agenda, could they?
OF course if they're not that would make them pretty unique amongst all government sourced statistics.
I sense a lot of internet warriors on this thread who's first call would be to 911. If you want to stop violence in this country, how about we dig into who is actually killing people in America? Who is actually pulling the trigger in the community?
Of the 2,468 people shot in Chicago this year (absolutely amazing that the MSM doesn't mention this) so far this year 86.4% were shot by and or are victims of black on black or hispanic gang violence (Sanctuary City). I'm not giving a pass to rogue cops, but if we want to talk about who is killing people in this country the #blacklivesmatter crew needs to look in the mirror.
http://heyjackass.com
What a dumb article. Just look at this contortion of statistics:
According to http://www.killedbypolice.net/
768 killed in 2013, 1108 killed in 2014, 963 to date in 2015.
FBI report. Why don't you just say government propaganda says. Same with unemployment rate, anything to do with the economy, and global warming. Jeeezzzuussss H Christ.
When shit really hits the fan in this country, the police will be outnumbered a zillion to one. Me thinks a few people make take advantage of the chaos to dole out a bit of retribution.
how about if BLM started killing politicians....
would it matter then?
they keep stats showing a doubling from 13 to 14 and then say it doesn't matter
tell that to the dead cops families and friends...
get the black terrorists under control and that includes the white hut and the jerkoff who lives there who is inciting criminal activity and racial unrest... and cant do the job he got selected to do
Chart In Focus- The myth there is an epidemic of policy officer killings
October 22, 2015
Tracking Data on Police Officer Deaths
https://www.mcoscillator.com/learning_center/weekly_chart/