A spate of shooting attacks on law enforcement officers has authorities concerned about a war on cops.Read the rest here.
In just 24 hours, at least 11 officers were shot. The shootings included Sunday attacks at traffic stops in Indiana and Oregon, a Detroit police station shooting that wounded four officers, and a shootout at a Port Orchard, Wash., Wal-Mart that injured two deputies. On Monday morning, two officers were shot dead and a U.S. Marshal was wounded by a gunman in St. Petersburg, Fla.
On Thursday, two Miami-Dade, Fla., detectives were killed by a murder suspect they were trying to arrest.
"It's not a fluke," said Richard Roberts, spokesman for the International Union of Police Associations. "There's a perception among officers in the field that there’s a war on cops going on."
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I'd be interested in knowing the tenure of the officers who were shot. Complacency sets in at around the five year mark, I was told. Guys who are fresh out of the academy are too nervous to let anyone get the drop on them.
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