6 police officers shot, 2 fatally, in shootings across US

[Kennah]

Source: KCRA

Prayers are pouring in for police departments across the country after a violent Friday night saw six police officers shot in shootings in Pennsylvania and Florida.

Two officers with the Kissimmee Police Department in Florida were fatally shot at around 9:30 p.m. The circumstances surrounding the shooting are unknown at this time.

Orange County mayor Teresa Jacobs tweeted the sad news just after 11:00 p.m.

"Heartbreaking loss of two of Kissimmee's finest officers. Please join in prayers for families, friends, and law enforcement," Jacobs said.

Read more: http://www.kcra.com/article/two-officers-possibly-shot-in-kissimmee-authorities-say/12035677

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Bask in what you have done, Reich Wing lunatics.

[angstlessk]

1. But no word on who shot them...even the one shooter that was killed?

Is there some sort of collusion among the killers?

[Sunlei]

2. a dangerous job these days.

[bluedigger]

10. Not nearly as bad as the '70's.

But maybe this is what Trump is bringing us back to.

The 1970s were particularly deadly for law enforcement. Eight of the top 10 years occurred in the 1970s. The most fatalities during this 61-year time period occurred in 1974, when there were 280 law enforcement deaths. (The spike in 2001 reflects the officers killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.)
As for the number of law enforcement officers shot and killed, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund said such fatal shootings are on the decline.
“Firearms-related fatalities peaked in 1973, when 156 officers were shot and killed,” the fund says. “Since then, the average number of officers killed has decreased from 127 per year in the 1970s to 57 per year in the 2000s. The 42 firearms-related fatalities in 2015 are 26 percent lower than the average of 57 per year for the decade spanning 2000-2009.”

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/07/killed-in-the-line-of-duty/

[Sunlei]

11. I didn't realize those stats. wonder how this relates to civies killed/wounded by police & prisoners

who die or suffer injuries- while in our jails & prisons. I'd like to see stats of police dogs bites also.

[lindysalsagal]

3. But we can't curtail gunz....oh no.

I don't want to hear it.

[mr_lebowski]

4. There's a built-in excuse-these cop-killers would still have them cuz they wouldn't obey the law ...

Its a simple 'out', and you'll never disabuse the gun-humpers otherwise.

Ever.

Frankly we needed to 'curtail' these rights about 100 years ago ...

[bronxiteforever]

5. And the NRA needs its blood sacrifices on a regular basis

[keithbvadu2]

9. The NRA has become nothing but a shill for the gun industry.

[Hortensis]

6. Sad, but 2 incidents is NOT shootings across the U.S. Shame

on this site for its clickbait headline. I was really alarmed.

And btw, anyone take a LOOK at what this virtual TV site reports?

Mom accused of recording sex acts with children and selling them online

Decapitated teen also had forearms cut off, officials say

Woman gets death penalty for locking 10-year-old cousin in storage box overnight

Cop accidentally overdoses during arrest

Venomous snakes suddenly show up in neighborhood

Man charged with statutory sodomy of 1-year-old girl

They report other news, but links to these kinds of stories are along the left border of the home and local screens. Some "secret" this and that allegations also. What a wonderful asset for the Sacramento area. Not.

[Sunlei]

12. I see what you mean. Local "news" has declined in quality across America.

I remember the crime report for a local area used to be a list. Now the worse crimes become the "headline" National 'political' news.

[Hortensis]

13. Agree. Our paper has don't-make-waves local news (don't look to it

for insight into government), the usual local accidents and crimes, and a bunch of filler from wire services. It's one of a chain regurgitating the same, most valuable for lists of upcoming events.

But there's absolutely nothing like this wowser! You certainly couldn't leave this thing on a table or screen where children might see it.

[sandensea]

7. Another Bush legacy. Heroin epidemic equals more police deaths.

Much like the crack epidemic in the late '80s - another product of Bush shenanigans (Bush sr. in that case).

[Sunlei]

8. This is so sad. There will be more of this as police continue to esculate every stop &

and make people fear them, more & more.

IMO police should be made a branch of the military. No more being allowed to ground people, join hate groups, go rogue/corrupt, have protection from 'unions' or ignore the chain of command.

[Hortensis]

14. Military patrolling our streets? How long until we longed

for civilian police? And civilian government that actually had the power to stop bad military cops? Rump's bringing retired generals into the executive branch is itself alarming people, the more alarmable the more alarmed. Some on the hard right are expecting tanks to roll down their streets any day.

Understand your wish for real change, though. A lot of places that don't make the news do it right, though. No need to abandon what works, just do it. And that certainly would be big change for some. During a low point of my work life (California had a Great Recession at the end of the Cold War) I transcribed internal affairs depositions for one of the nation's largest departments. OMG...