Larry O’Connor penned an opinion piece at The Washington Times. An excerpt of his latest article, Number of cops killed near 50-year low in Trump’s first year, is below:
President Donald Trump’s first year in office has coincided with a near 50-year low in a very grim statistic: The number of police officers killed in the line of duty.
A report from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, shows that 128 officers died in 2017. That number is a 10 percent decrease from 2016, when 141 officers were killed while wearing the badge.
In fact, the number of officers killed in the line of duty had been on the rise for the past three consecutive years. The steady rise in police deaths coincided with the Black Lives Matter movement that arose after several high-profile incidents between law enforcement and African-American suspects.
President Obama sympathized with the Black Lives Matter movement and even honored the leaders of the controversial group with invitations to the White House.
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