{"id":1445829,"date":"2022-04-19T11:15:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T15:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1445829"},"modified":"2022-04-19T11:15:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T15:15:15","slug":"meet-the-police-shot-in-the-line-of-duty-so-far-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-police-shot-in-the-line-of-duty-so-far-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Police Shot In The Line Of Duty So Far This Year"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fmeet-the-police-shot-in-the-line-of-duty-so-far-this-year%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=1445829&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Police.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Were it not a tragic reality, police lieutenant William Lebo\u2019s death might sound like a movie clich\u00e9: The 63-year-old officer on the Lebanon City Police Department in Pennsylvania was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/lebanon-pennsylvania-three-police-officers-shot-one-killed\/39608065\">shot and killed<\/a> just 30 days before his scheduled retirement. On March 31, police received a call that a mentally disturbed man with a reported history of domestic violence had broken into a family member\u2019s home. Lebo, a 40-year veteran of the force, joined his younger colleagues to respond to the call, but the suspect \u201cimmediately opened fire,\u201d according to Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf. \u201cOfficers performed life-saving measures on Lieutenant Lebo to no avail.\u201d Lebo died without ever seeing his May 1 retirement party.<\/p>\n<p>The two surviving officers \u2014 Ryan Adams and Derek Underkoffler, both 32 years old and seven-year veterans of the force \u2014 became part of a gruesome statistic: More police officers have been shot in the line of duty during the first three months of 2022 than during the same period in 2021, which was a record-breaking year for anti-police violence.<\/p>\n<p>In the first quarter of this year, 101 police were shot while on the job, <a href=\"https:\/\/national.fop.net\/report-shot-killed-20220401#page=2\">according<\/a> to the Fraternal Order of Police\u2019s April 8 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/national.fop.net\/fop-update-20220408#page=1\">Washington Watch<\/a>.\u201d The number of officers wounded by gunfire as of April 1 is 46% higher than the same period in 2021 and almost two-thirds higher (63%) than this time in 2020. A total of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odmp.org\/search\/year\/2022\">16<\/a> law enforcement officers have been killed by hostile gunfire, as of this writing.<\/p>\n<p>A particularly concerning statistic is the fact that almost one-third of these victims (32) were shot in ambush attacks, in which the criminal shoots without warning or without giving the officer time to defend himself. Ambush attacks have already claimed five police officers\u2019 lives in the first quarter of this year. At this rate, 2022 will break the record for the number of police officers wounded or killed by gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Lebo was one of at least five officers shot on March 31 \u2014 and as their stories prove, the danger does not end when the police officers clock out.<\/p>\n<p>An off-duty police officer was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-03-31\/inglewood-officer-shot-while-off-duty-gunman-remains-at-large\">shot<\/a>\u00a0earlier the same morning in Inglewood, California. Local media <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/off-duty-officer-injured-in-lennox-area-shooting\/\">report<\/a> that the unnamed officer who was shot multiple times, including at least once in the torso, \u201cwas apparently\u2026 attempting to retrieve property possibly related to a domestic violence incident involving a family member, sheriff\u2019s Lt. Charles Calderaro said without elaborating.\u201d Federal and local officers <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/man-suspected-of-shooting-off-duty-inglewood-police-officer-arrested-in-michigan\/\">arrested<\/a> the suspect \u2014 27-year-old Marquis Wilkerson \u2014 in Flint, Michigan, on April 7. \u00a0The officer was last listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The evening of March 31, another off-duty officer fell in the line of duty: 51-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odmp.org\/officer\/26107-deputy-sheriff-darren-almendarez\">Darren Almendarez<\/a>, an off-duty deputy on the Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office in Texas, and his wife came out of a Houston grocery store when he saw suspects allegedly stealing a catalytic converter from a vehicle in the parking lot. Almendarez, a 23-year veteran, served in its auto theft division. He approached the three suspects, when he was shot and killed. He returned fire before dying, striking two of his alleged assailants. Police have charged <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/charged-capital-murder-shooting-off-duty-texas-deputy\/story?id=83832954\">three people<\/a> with capital murder: Joshua Stewart, 23; Fredarius Clark, 19; and Fredrick Tardy, 17.<\/p>\n<p>Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5cxxTmWaMHM\">revealed<\/a> that Almendarez lost his life on his sister\u2019s birthday; the deputy had been inside the store to buy groceries for her birthday meal. \u201cToday, we\u2019ve lost another hero here in our community, sadly,\u201d he said at a press conference, \u201cand our hearts are broken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Residents\u2019 hearts broke again in a moment of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu just two days later. On April 2, another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/crime\/off-duty-new-caney-isd-officer-injured\/285-590faa18-a1c5-454b-ba11-507948f3ee8e\">off-duty officer<\/a> with the New Caney Independent School District encountered three other men allegedly stealing catalytic converters in the parking lot of a Houston movie theater. The suspects reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SheriffEd_HCSO\/status\/1510480468600315907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1510480468600315907%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.click2houston.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2F2022%2F04%2F03%2Fnew-caney-isd-officer-injured-in-shooting-involving-catalytic-converter-theft-suspects-outside-movie-theater%2F\">shot at him<\/a>; thankfully, that officer survived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFive law enforcement officers have been killed in the line of duty, in the last 70 days, in Harris County,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HPOUTX\/status\/1510715212378349571\">noted<\/a> the Harris Police Officers Union. \u2018In 2022, 24% of all US law enforcement line of duty deaths, have been in Texas\u2026 This trend cannot continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Five law enforcement officers have been killed in the line of duty, in the last 70 days, in Harris County.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, 24% of all US law enforcement line of duty deaths, have been in Texas, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ODMP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ODMP<\/a>. This trend cannot continue.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HarrisCountyDeservesBetter?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HarrisCountyDeservesBetter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PoliceDeserveBetter?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PoliceDeserveBetter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mxkBdXnjfK\">pic.twitter.com\/mxkBdXnjfK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Houston Police Officers&#8217; Union (@HPOUTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HPOUTX\/status\/1510715212378349571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The number of officers shot, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/shots-fly-at-off-duty-cops-car-in-manhattan-after-sideswipe\/3612307\/\">or shot at<\/a>, while off-duty proves beyond any doubt that police are willing to put themselves in danger, 24\/7. But 2022 may become the most dangerous of increasingly dangerous years for law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<p>The number of police shot in the line of duty broke all previous records <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/3-stories-the-legacy-media-ignored-last-week\">by last November<\/a>. By the end of 2021, a total of <a href=\"https:\/\/fop.net\/2022\/01\/fop-monthly-update-officers-shot-and-killed-6\/\">346<\/a> police officers had been shot in the line of duty, and 63 died from their wounds, according to the Fraternal Order of Police. Nearly half of those deaths (30) came as a result of 103 separate ambush attacks, in which suspects shot 130 cops. Despite the adage that \u201cif it bleeds, it leads,\u201d police officers\u2019 deaths have generated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/5-stories-the-media-tried-to-ignore-in-2021\">little coverage in a legacy media<\/a> too often focused on celebrating criminals.<\/p>\n<p>But officers say the media\u2019s already anti-police narrative, combined with soft-on-crime policies like zero bail \u201creforms,\u201d actively endanger the police. \u201cWe are dealing with the same people over and over, and as they become emboldened, as they get let out realizing, \u2018They\u2019re not going to do anything to me,\u2019\u201d former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sgt-john-mattingly-the-cop-wounded-in-breonna-taylor-shooting-tells-his-story\">Louisville Police Sgt. John Mattingly<\/a>, author of the book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/12-Seconds-Dark-Officers-Firsthand\/dp\/1956007016\">12 Seconds In The Dark<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-interview-sgt-john-mattingly-exposes-the-media-lies-about-breonna-taylors-shooting\">told me<\/a> exclusively. \u201cThey hear all this rhetoric from the Left and from the progressives about how the police are bad, the police are at fault.\u201d Lowering the disincentives to attack, or murder, police leads to tragic results.<\/p>\n<p>Police are quick to point out these ill effects cannot be confined to the thin blue line. \u201cWe\u2019re tired of this crime in our community. We\u2019re tired that people aren\u2019t even safe to go out to the grocery store. This is a cop \u2014 this is a cop out with his family. It could be any one of us,\u201d said Sheriff Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe effects of this are so wide-ranging,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/first-responders-pay-their-respects-to-lebanon-officer-killed-in-line-of-duty\/39677716\">said<\/a> Lebanon Fire Commissioner Duane Trautman at Lebo\u2019s funeral. \u201cI think it\u2019s hard to appreciate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the effects of societal breakdown, the service of officers like Lebo should never go without our appreciation.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were it not a tragic reality, police lieutenant William Lebo\u2019s death might sound like a movie clich\u00e9: The 63-year-old officer on the Lebanon City Police Department in Pennsylvania was shot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":1445853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445829","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\/1445829","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1445853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}