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Number of US police officers murdered up by 59% - FBI

Murders of police officers rose by nearly 60% during 2021, amid a wider rise in violent crime across the US, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray.

In an interview with 60 Minutes, Mr Wray said 73 officers were killed in the line of duty last year.

Murders of all kinds across the US have risen dramatically since 2019.

Mr Wray said violence against police was a "phenomena" that "doesn't get enough attention".

He said it amounted to an officer killed every five days. Around 1,000 people are killed in the US by police each year, although only a small proportion of cases lead to criminal charges.

Mr Wray said that "some" of the violence against police is "tied to the violent crime problem as a whole".

But, he said, authorities believe that "an alarming percentage" of the officers killed were targeted and "killed through things like being ambushed or shot while out on patrol".

"Wearing the badge shouldn't make you a target," he added.

Mr Wray did not disclose how many of the 73 officers were targeted in such a manner.

In January, however, the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) said that it had recorded 103 "ambush-style attacks" on officers in 2021, resulting in 130 officers shot and 30 killed.

In 2020, the FBI's own data estimates that murders rose 29% from 2019, the sharpest increase since national-level record keeping began in 1960.

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The Problem of Disobedience

The reason why so many black suspects are getting shot and killed by the police is because of disobedience. They do not obey police commands. The entire Black Lives Matter movement (with which we are NOT AFFILIATED in any way) is also disobedience - and it is disobedience which is going to get people killed.  We need to address what police are suppossed to do, and what they are allowed to do when they issue a command to a citizen, and when the citizen disobeys. George Floyd resisted arrest and that got him killed. It shouldn't have gotten him killed, of course, and we have already called for the prosecution of all 4 police officers involvved in that murder for 1st degree murder, but it is a fact that Floyd refused to get into the police car when ordered to. He became physically violent and fought, although handcuffed, with officers physically refusing to allow them to put him into the police car. That, and a corrupt system of justice that has not punished murderous police officers and which gives police far too many powers over citizens, got George Floyd killed. Michael Brown was killed when he disobeyed a police command to stop. The list is endless. Almost all police killings are in response to a suspect who does not obey their commands. So, what are the police suppossed to do when a suspect disobeys the police? There is a REAL problem of disobedience in the USA.

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Black Lives Matter .BLACK is NOT affiliated with the BLM movement.

Black Lives Matter .BLACK is NOT AFFILIATED in any way with the Black Lives Matter movement - which is a violent, radical group run by black lesbians and queers - people with so many "chips" on their shoulders that they see evil and racism everywhere. Those strange people don't represent America, and they don't represent black people or black americans either. They think the world is against them because of the color of their skin, and their gender, because of their sexual choices, etc. They believe in special rights for women, minorities, gays, lesbians, queers, etc. and we know that the U.S. Constitution and every State Constitution prohibit special rights for specific groups. All individuals must have exactly the same legal rights. Reforming the corrupt legal system that gives certain groups of people special rights, that protects police who murder, that allows lawyers to skim 15 to 20 % off the top of the US economy, that is a for-profit big money business rather than the not-for-profit system of justice that it was intended to be is the key to reforming racism and other problems in society. Vote for the LRA (the Legal Reform Amendment).

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