I saw a white man with a gun. I heard a policeman saying, "Place the weapon down on the ground, ple

Yes, but there aren't enough active shooters, so to keep from losing their new munitions, they're using them predominantly to issue warrants, which used to be a reasonably peaceful procedure.

Crime’s Down, So Why is Police Aggression Increasing?

You might not know it from watching TV news, but FBI statistics show that crime in the U.S.—including violent crime—has been trending steadily downward for years, falling 19% between 1987 and 2011. The job of being a police officer has become safer too, as the number of police killed by gunfire plunged to 33 last year, down 50% from 2012, to its lowest level since, wait for it, 1887, a time when the population was 75% lower than it is today.

So why are we seeing an ever increasing militarization of policing across the country?

Given the good news on crime, what are we to make of a report by the Justice Policy Institute, a not-for-profit justice reform group, showing that state and local spending on police has soared from $40 billion in 1982 to more than $100 billion in 2012. Adding in federal spending on law enforcement, including the FBI, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Drug Enforcement Agency and much of the Homeland Security Department budget, as well as federal grants to state and local law enforcement more than doubles that total. A lot of that money is simply pay and benefits. The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that the ranks of state and local law enforcement personnel alone swelled from 603,000 to 794,000 between 1992 and 2010. That’s about two-thirds as many men and women as the entire active-duty US military.

What these statistics make clear is that policing in America is ramping up even as the crime rate is falling.

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Wrong...its 562...guess you flunked arithmetic


I'm pretty sure I did better in math than you did in logic. Had you ever taken a class in it, that is.

When I moved to an urban area where crime was more common, I responded appropriately and locked my doors. Duh.

In 1981, for example, there were 3,000 no knock warrants executed in America. In 2005, just 24 years later, this number skyrocketed to over 50,000 no knock raids.

■51 percent of the attacks studied occurred in the workplace, while 17 percent occurred in a school, 17 percent occurred in a public place, and six percent occurred in a religious establishment.
(all gun free zones)

Peter Blair, PhD, and Hunter Martindale, PhD, conducted a study of 84 active shooter incidents from 2001 to 2010. Here’s a summary of their findings:
■Two percent of the shooters bring improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as an additional weapon.
■In 10 percent of the cases, the shooter stops and walks away. In 20 percent of the cases, the shooter goes mobile, moving to another location.
■43 percent of the time, the crime is over before police arrive. In 57 percent of the shootings, an officer arrives while shooting is still underway,officers had to use force to stop the killing..

However, in 45 of the 160 incidents where law
enforcement did engage a shooter, law enforcement suffered casualties in 21 (46.7%) of the
incidents, resulting in 9 officers killed and 28 wounded.
Significantly, 10 of the officers were wounded in gunfights categorized as occurring in
open spaces where the shooters were moving through streets and between buildings.

. I suppose you are going to now tell us that malls and stores in Texas and Florida are gun free zones.

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial shows that officer deaths are down

Why were they even trying to rip him away from his dead child? The child was dead. Nobody was trying to resuscitate him. Why not let the parent grieve? That's what parents are supposed to do. That's normal behavior. It was inhuman to treat him like that for perfectly normal and peaceful behavior