{"id":1211643,"date":"2022-01-12T15:34:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T20:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1211643"},"modified":"2022-01-12T15:34:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T20:34:47","slug":"killings-of-cops-spiked-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/killings-of-cops-spiked-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Killings of Cops Spiked in 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\">12<\/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%2Fkillings-of-cops-spiked-in-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=1211643&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Fatal shootings of police up 36 percent<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1232431306-736x491-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1232431306-e1619018048905.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1232431306-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1232431306-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1232431306-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1232431306-1400x934.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tPortland police on April 20 \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/karl-salzmann\/\" title=\"Posts by Karl Salzmann\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Karl Salzmann<\/a> \u2022 January 12, 2022 3:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Police fatalities in the line of duty, including the number of officers killed by gunfire, spiked in 2021, a National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund <a href=\"https:\/\/nleomf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2021-EOY-Fatality-Report-Final-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> found.<\/p>\n<p>Police deaths last year rose to 458, a 55 percent increase from the year before. Eighty-four police officers in 2021 died from &#8220;felonious assaults,&#8221; including 61 officers killed with firearms. The number of firearm deaths is a 36 percent from 2020.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nineteen officers were killed in &#8220;ambush-style attacks,&#8221; which the report calls a &#8220;significant increase&#8221; from only six attacks in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The leading cause of death for 2021 remains COVID-19, which killed around 301 officers. Other causes include heart attacks, strokes, and 9\/11-related illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>The number of officers killed is the highest ever recorded by the memorial fund. The last year to see police deaths over 300 was 1930, which had 312 on-duty fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes during a difficult time for police. Last year saw a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/policy\/why-cant-we-talk-about-the-murder-wave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murder wave<\/a> across the United States, particularly in cities large and small, and lingering anti-police rhetoric and protests. Those same cities have reported dramatic mass resignations from police officers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News Fatal shootings of police up 36 percent  Portland police on April 20 \/ Getty Images  Karl Salzmann \u2022 January 12, 2022 3:30 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":1893987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}