{"id":1276192,"date":"2022-02-06T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1276192"},"modified":"2022-02-06T14:08:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T19:08:24","slug":"report-on-police-killed-during-joe-bidens-tenure-most-since-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-on-police-killed-during-joe-bidens-tenure-most-since-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on Police Killed During Joe Biden\u2019s Tenure: Most Since 1995\u00a0"},"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\">22<\/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%2Freport-on-police-killed-during-joe-bidens-tenure-most-since-1995%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=1276192&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--><p class=\"subheading\">An FBI database of police officers killed in the line of duty shows that more have died since Joe Biden became president than deaths dating back to 1995.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe it\u2019s a combination \u2026 of the George Floyd protests \u2014 riots, if you will; a general feeling of a preference for less law enforcement; and less prosecution and less policing,\u201d Jason Johnson, president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF) and a 20-year police veteran, said in a Fox News report.<\/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>\u201cLaw enforcement officers have essentially been marginalized and demoralized and cast aside and encouraged now to enforce the law,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cAnd so we\u2019ve seen massive jumps in the homicide rate in cities across America.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19719466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/wi\/ap\/01\/aptopix-police-officers-shot-casket-of-york-city-police-officer-wilbert-mora-is-delivered-st-patrick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19719466 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aptopix-police-officers-shot-casket-of-york-city-police-officer-wilbert-mora-is-delivered-st-patrick-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The casket of New York City Police Officer Wilbert Mora is delivered to St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral for his wake, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo\/John Minchillo)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Johnson said rising homicide rates in major U.S. cities have \u201calso resulted in many more officers being assaulted because \u2026 a lot of leaders in these cities and leaders in Congress and leaders in the White House have really voiced a lack of respect for law enforcement officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19739786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1368248499.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19739786 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1368248499-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Police officers stand at attention ahead of the processional of fallen officer Wilbert Mora from at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral on February 2, 2022 in New York City. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/more-cops-killed-under-biden\">reported<\/a> on the death toll:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In 2021, the FBI counted <a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com\/cg-d4b776d0-d898-4153-90c8-8336f86bdfec\/LEOKA_INFO.pdf\">73<\/a> officers intentionally killed in the line of duty. That\u2019s a nearly 59 percent increase compared to the <a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com\/cg-d4b776d0-d898-4153-90c8-8336f86bdfec\/LEOKA_press_release_2020_data.pdf\">46<\/a> intentionally killed in 2020.The last time more than 72 officers were killed was in <a href=\"https:\/\/ucr.fbi.gov\/crime-in-the-u.s\/1995\/95sec6.pdf\">1995<\/a>, when 74 officers were intentionally killed on the job, according to LEOKA data.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The next highest number of officers intentionally killed on duty was 72 in 2011, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ucr.fbi.gov\/leoka\/2019\/topic-pages\/tables\/table-9.xls\">LEOKA data<\/a> analyzed in a report by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartland.org\/_template-assets\/documents\/LawEnforcementDeaths2021.pdf\">Heartland Institute<\/a>.That number was 55 in 2012, 27 in 2013, 51 in 2014, 41 in 2015, 66 in 2016, 46 in 2017, 56 in 2018 and 48 in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ambush attacks against officers were also up in 2021, with LEOKA data showing that 32 officers were killed in an ambush or unprovoked attack in 2021, exceeding previous records dating back to at least 1987, according to the Heartland Institute\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<p>The statistics come in the wake of calls to defund police following the death of George Floyd, which sparked months of anti-police riots where officers were attacked and injured.<\/p>\n<p>Now as crime surges across the country more and more states, including previously defund-police blue states, are<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;seeking to re-fund police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil and unless we see some leadership \u2014 both in the White House and in individual cities, district attorneys that are willing to hold police accountable when they\u2019re wrong but are willing to support them when they\u2019re right \u2014 we\u2019re going to continue to speak up not only with increasing levels of violent crime but increasing numbers of assaults and the killing of law enforcement officers,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said in the Fox News report that the Biden administration\u2019s \u201cactions have shown that they are not supportive of the police,\u201d including the president visiting New York City just one day after thousands of officers and civilians paid their final respects to fallen New York Police Department (NYPD) officers Wilbert Mora and Jason Rivera, who were killed when responding to a domestic violence report.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Penny Starr on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennyStarrDC\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An FBI database of police officers killed in the line of duty shows that more have died since Joe Biden became president than deaths dating back to 1995. \u201cWe believe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276192","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}