Authorities Fear Cops Being Targeted After at Least 11 Officers Shot in 24 Hours

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

Authorities are worried a recent wave of police officer shootings may not be a coincidence.

In just 24 hours, at least 11 cops were shot around the country.

The most recent incident at a fugitive's house in St. Petersburg, Fla., left two officers dead and a U.S. marshal wounded Monday. Hours earlier, an Oregon officer was critically wounded after being shot multiple times during a traffic stop.

Monday's violence followed a bloody Sunday that left an officer in Indianapolis critically wounded during a traffic stop shooting, four officers in Indianapolis wounded after a gunman opened fire in a precinct and two more officers in Washington wounded in a shootout in a Walmart parking lot.

"It's not a fluke," Richard Roberts, a spokesman for the International Union of Police Associations, told MSNBC.com. "There's a perception among officers in the field that there’s a war on cops going on."
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All of the unhinged types seem to be coming out of the woodwork lately...

[Sanguine]

I had been wondering. Societal break-down kind of thing?

[pollyannaish]

"We don't have any data, but there seems to be a type of criminal out there looking to thwart authority," he told the station.

 

According to National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, an organization that tracks police casualties, there have already been as many officer deaths in January 2011 as there were in January of last year. The organization reported that officer deaths were up 43 percent in 2010 compared to 2009.

 

 

 

This article made me suspicious. What is the baseline information about what is "normal"? Tada: About the same as LAST year...although cleverly worded....and that is was last year that officer deaths were UP.

 

I get suspicious when we start to hear lots of local officer shot stories nationally after a high profile shooting.

These happen more often than we hear...but are on higher alert because of the Giffords shooting, and are more likely the beginning of another "we need more gun laws" drumbeat which includes a "there are crazy people everwhere" element.

 

What's interesting to me is that these are still exactly the kind of people who will have guns when there are more gun laws. It will be the law abiding citizens who will have less.