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In early July, 2016, I wrote ‘Is The War On Cops Debunked? Not So Fast.’ In that post I basically took the media and Reason.com down on their silly elementary ‘debunking’ of the war on cops. They used old data and applied it to 2015 and 2016. Which is utterly ridiculous and very lazy. You know, modern journalistic standards.
Now we are only two days away from the end of the year, and we have a lot more data. Sadly, I was right, they were wrong. Amazing what happens when you use actual statistics, and aren’t trying to promote your own confirmation bias.
Here’s the latest we have on police fatalities:
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Please note: These numbers reflect total officer fatalities comparing January 1 through December 28, 2016 vs January 1 through December 28, 2015
As you can see, things have been steadily getting worse since mid-2015. This chart only shows preliminary data on police fatalities, not assaults. Assaults have been increasing as well. A lot of the improvements made in police fatalities over the past several years have been a result of advances in life-saving technology, not a reduction in attempts to kill officers.
When the media peddles a false narrative that police are targeting segments of our population for murder (they aren’t), then basic human instinct takes root in the uninformed, angry, and criminal elements of society. It’s like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Let’s settle some confusion about violence against cops.
There’s plenty of media outlets out there proclaiming to ‘debunk’ the ‘war on cops‘ while claiming violence against police isn’t increasing. People ‘debunking’ that violence against police is increasing are usually citing data that ends in 2014. The 2015 data is still preliminary for most categories. October is usually when we get finalized data from the previous year. 2016 is obviously very new, and won’t be finalized until Fall 2017. We do have some trends for 2016 since media is monitoring it more closely.
These ‘debunkers’ also only cite police deaths, not all violence against cops. This is not how you properly report on statistics.
All data is taken from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports, and the National Law Enforcement Officer’s Memorial Fund.
2013 – 49,851 officers were assaulted while performing their duties.
2014 – 48,315 officers were assaulted while performing their duties in 2014.
In 2013, police were 0.5% more likely to be assaulted with a gun than 2014.
In 2014, assaults via hands, knives, or other weapons actually increased.
2015 shows a decline in police officers murdered in preliminary data. There is no assault data available. We don’t know if it is increasing or decreasing.
It is the reduction in firearm related violence against police in 2014 that reduced the overall number of assaults. All other categories increased in 2014.
We have very little for 2016, but we do have some.
Assaults and felonious deaths have been trending down slightly since 2007. Total deaths while on duty (traffic, accident, health, and murder) have been increasing since 2013.
CBS News reports that threats against police, and ambush shootings of police are on the rise for 2016.
[Tweet theme=”basic-full”]CBS News reports that threats against police, and ambush shootings of police are on the rise for 2016.[/Tweet]
7 months into the year, and ambush shootings of cops have surpassed all of 2015. There have been 11 this year. There were 8 in 2015, and 15 in 2014.
[Tweet theme=”basic-full”]7 months into 2016, and ambush shootings of cops have surpassed all of 2015.[/Tweet]
Preliminary data for 2016 is also showing a 44% increase in officers murdered with a gun over 2015 through July.
[Tweet theme=”basic-full”]Preliminary data for 2016 is also showing a 44% increase in officers murdered with a gun over 2015[/Tweet]
So, is there an increase in violence against police? In some categories … undeniably yes. 2016 certainly isn’t looking good. The question remains as to whether the overall number of assaults, and killings increases in 2015 and 2016.
The trend of reduced shootings in 2015 may be turning around with the increase in ambush shootings of officers the first half of 2016.
You can’t definitively say that violence against police isn’t increasing while missing a full year and a half of data. Especially when preliminary data shows a potential increase.
Final thought:
The notion of cops declaring ‘open season’ on blacks is pure, undeniable, mythology. I proved that here. What if that myth, peddled by the media daily, makes the other myth of rising violence against police become a reality? How utterly stupid would we be?
New data shows shootings of police up 78% so far in 2016.
I rightfully, and masterfully, ridiculed #Katie Couric and her new #anti-gun ‘#documentary‘ a while ago on the show. She appeared on ‘The Late Show with Steven Colbert’ to peddle her new fiction movie called ‘#Under The Gun.’ From the clips she showed it was clear this movie was going to be an exercise in #selective editing, and leading questions.
[Tweet theme=”basic-full”]It was clear this movie was going to be an exercise in selective editing. http://snip.ly/b3yod @CaseyTheHost[/Tweet]
I also mocked her for stating that ‘the NRA only represents 5% of gun owners.’ No Katie, the #NRA represents 100% of gun owners. Only 5% are paying members.
[Tweet theme=”basic-full”]No Katie Couric, the NRA represents 100% of gun owners. Only 5% are paying members. http://snip.ly/b3yod Via @CaseyTheHost[/Tweet]
Plus, we already know her claim that 90% want #universal background checks is a #debunked #myth. When you ask the question in a specific way about private transfers, 53% of Americans disagree with having background checks of this nature.
Here we are a few weeks later, and we have already acquired the proof that Katie Couric‘s ‘Under the Gun‘ is about as accurate as the NY Times’ discredited hit piece on Trump.
Oops!
Of course, anyone who watches that scene absent the raw/true audio will know it is heavily edited. Confirmation bias, however, will make anti-Constitution advocate WANT to believe it wasn’t edited to push a false narrative.
The group Katie Couric LIES about in this scene are not happy campers.
The Virginia Citizens Defense League labeled the deceptively edited segment featured in the film “unbelievable and extremely unprofessional.” Philip Van Cleave, the organization’s president, said the editing was done deliberately to make it appear that league members didn’t have a response to Couric’s question.
“Katie Couric asked a key question during an #interview of some members of our organization,” he said. “She then intentionally removed their answers and spliced in nine seconds of some prior video of our members sitting quietly and not responding. Viewers are left with the misunderstanding that the members had no answer to her question.”
In all honesty, you guys should have known better. Maybe you did. Perhaps that’s why we have the raw audio.
There are many false claims in the movie that have been #exposed, but Katie Couric and the anti-Constitution lobby are all in using the Joseph Goebbels model of propaganda.
[Tweet theme=”basic-full”]Katie Couric and the anti-Constitution lobby are all in using the Joseph Goebbels model of propaganda. Via @CaseyTheHost http://snip.ly/b3yod[/Tweet]
