{"id":1189045,"date":"2022-01-04T23:49:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T04:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1189045"},"modified":"2022-01-04T23:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T04:49:36","slug":"346-police-officers-shot-in-line-of-duty-during-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/346-police-officers-shot-in-line-of-duty-during-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"346 Police Officers Shot in Line of Duty During 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F346-police-officers-shot-in-line-of-duty-during-2021%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1189045&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/police-tape-line.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Three-hundred-and-forty-six police officers were shot in the line of duty during 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GLFOP\/status\/1478088826782425097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1478088826782425097%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fus%2Fofficers-shot-line-of-duty-2021\">notes<\/a> that 63 of those officers succumbed to their gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Also, FOP also points out that 130 officers were shot in \u201cambush-style attacks,\u201d noting that such attacks on officers in 2021 went up 115 percent from 2020.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>FOP president Patrick Yoes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/officers-shot-line-of-duty-2021\">told<\/a> Fox News, \u201cAs we have said before, the recent erosion of respect for law enforcement and anti-police rhetoric has fueled more aggression towards police officers than what has been seen in previous years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On January 4, 2022, White House press secretary Jen Psaki used a tweet to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/04\/white-house-boasts-of-joe-bidens-first-year-gun-controls-as-12-cities-broke-homicide-records\/\">boast<\/a> of the executive gun controls President Joe Biden instituted in 2020 \u201cto stop gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tweet did not mention the number of officers who were shot nor did it mention the 12 Democrat-run cities that broke their annual homicide records in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/12-major-us-cities-top-annual-homicide-records\/story?id=81466453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">listed<\/a>&nbsp;the 12 cities as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Albuquerque, New Mexico<\/li>\n<li>Austin, Texas<\/li>\n<li>Baton Rouge, Louisiana<\/li>\n<li>Columbus, Ohio<\/li>\n<li>Indianapolis, Indiana<\/li>\n<li>Louisville, Kentucky<\/li>\n<li>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/li>\n<li>Portland, Oregon<\/li>\n<li>Rochester, New York<\/li>\n<li>St. Paul, Minnesota<\/li>\n<li>Toledo, Ohio<\/li>\n<li>Tucson, Arizona<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News<\/em><em>&nbsp;and the writer\/curator of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Down Range with AWR Hawkins<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em><em>a weekly newsletter focused o<\/em><em>n al<\/em><em>l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram:&nbsp;<\/em><em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/awr_hawkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@awr_hawkins<\/a>. Reach him at&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:awrhawkins@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">awrhawkins@breitbart.com<\/a>. You can sign up to get Down Range at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breitbart.com\/downrange<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-hundred-and-forty-six police officers were shot in the line of duty during 2021. 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