Police Deaths Rise

When I think about all the difficult work that is conducted, certainly being a police officer has got to be one of the most difficult of all jobs.

These people put their lives on the line every day, just imagine working the beats in some of these harsh urban areas and poor rural areas.

Personally I have been perplexed by the release of data indicating that violent crime is down in America. Here we see that more police were killed while on duty in 2010. The former and latter don't jive.

In my opinion reviewing the article the most salient cause surrounds a more coldblooded type of criminal. Perhaps there are less criminals but the remaining ones are more coldblooded and there's still plenty of those people.

CS Monitor: Why police officer deaths rose 37 percent in 2010

But in five of the past 10 years, the number of police officer deaths topped 160, making the decade almost as dangerous for police as the street wars of the 1970s, when the average number of officers killed per year hovered around 200. And in the gangster heyday of the 1920s, about 150 died every year.


"Every cop that's slain or otherwise killed in the line of duty is a horrendous situation, but the numbers fluctuate so much percentage-wise because it really is a low-base-rate phenomenon. So even a little movement from one year to the next can produce a high percentage of difference over the previous year..."

"A more brazen, coldblooded criminal element is on the prowl in America, and they don't think twice about killing a cop..."