This USA Today article reports on the nearly 54% increase of officer who have been gunned down over last year and the September 8th murder of three Odessa, Texas police officers while responding to a domestic dispute. The increase in the shooting of police officers is disturbing.
Almost as telling as the article and graphic are some of the comments posted after the above article.
Here’s one rather interesting post by a reader:
“pixie wrote: 1m ago
geniusikn0wit wrote: 3m ago
jadeliz wrote: 6m ago
Domestic violence calls are a police officers worst nightmare. The wife usually calls on her abusive husband, and then after all of the yelling, screaming, hitting, and threats, the wife almost always refuses to press charges, and if the guy is really violent you have a homicide. I have lived with law enforcement all of my life, and I know first hand that this is a nighmare call for any officer.
====Empirical experience has taught me that women are just as prone to commit an act of domestic violence as are men. Men are far less likely to even call the cops, let alone refusing to press charges, so it goes underreported.
But while the cops are busy mourning their dead, perhaps they should take some time to mourn the innocent people they have killed.
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I am sure they do. How dare you say they dont. You have no idea what they do or dont do. Why do you think there is a high incident of suicide in the Police Force? I am sure they live with their decisions and actions 24/7 or they kill themselves.”
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Interesting perceptions from those reading the article.