Tired Of Cop (And Cop Apologist) Lies? You Should Be

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This chart is the population adjusted rate of on-duty officer deaths, in number of deaths-per-million residents per year.  You can see that when adjusted for population while the early 1970s spike was bad it still was only about half of the Prohibition-era rate.  9/11 again shows up, but now it is a lot less of a distortion, isn't it?
And further, the rate in 2014, 0.37 per million, is 28% of the 1974 rate of 1.31.
Got that folks?  The risk of dying as a cop from all causes, including being shot, run over by a car, being in a traffic accident (not an incident) and similar is down by nearly three quarters over the last 40 years.
Yet we're told that murders of police officers are an "epidemic", "growing", and are increasing.
This is a bald-faced lie and those who run such crap for political purpose, or worse, to attempt to justify disarming the public, need to be run out of town on a rail no matter who they are.  This is especially true when such lies are used in an attempt to justify thuggish behavior by cops.