Joel Hendon

The FBI Annual Report Shows 56 Officers Feloniously Killed In 2010


Posted: Monday, October 24, 2011

by Joel Hendon
http://hebronics.org/index.html

When people sign on with law enforcement agencies, they do so knowing there is a significant increase in the possibility of their being killed. And, there are far too many instances when their deaths are from absolutely insignificant reasons. There are many people who hate police. They see a policeman and they hate him, they don’t know him but they hate him. It is simply that they despise authority and long to commit crimes against their fellow man. A policeman simply gives them a means of venting their frustrations and anger.

In their report for 2010, they show in addition to the 56 killed by felons, another 72 were killed by accidents in the line of duty. Most of the accidental deaths involved vehicles. The FBI maintains a detailed report of all officers killed and issues details of each one to the many law enforcement agencies throughout the nation to assist in training. Many times, there is an obvious detail which could have avoided the death, and this is very helpful in the safety training for old officers as well as the new recruits.

Another staggering statistic is that 53,469 officers were assaulted during the same year. This figure amounts to 1 in 10 (10%) of all officers employed in the various agencies throughout the country.

Here are some of the facets brought out in the report:

Firearms were used in all cases except one of those 56 feloniously killed. One was killed by a motor vehicle intentionally used for a weapon.

Of those 56 feloniously killed, 15 were ambushed, 14 were attempting to make an arrest, 7 were conducting traffic stops and 6 were answering disturbance calls.

Of the numerous assaults on a police officer, one third was committed on officers responding to disturbance calls. Another 14.7% were when officers were attempting arrests.

The average age of those officers killed feloniously and by accident were 38 and 39 respectively.

The figures have varied over the past 10 years and during 2010, they were neither the highest number nor the lowest. Here are the annual numbers from 2001 through 2010 of those feloniously:

[2001--70] [2002--56] [2003--52] [2004--57] [2005--55] [2006--48] [2007--58] [2008--41] [2009--48] [2010--56]

We owe our gratitude to these brave public servants. If you can concentrate a little and think how our society and streets would be without them, you can begin to see their value. I, for one have never been arrested by one and even though I was caught slightly over the speed limit a couple of times, I’ve always been treated courteously and politely. 
Author Biography: Joel Hendon was born near Gadsden Alabama. He attended public schools in Cherokee County, Alabama and after serving a tour of duty in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, attended Jacksonville State University, majoring in Business Administration. He became a Christian in 1948, and although he followed secular work as a career and retired from Allied Signal Aerospace, he is an avid student of the Holy Bible and related works as well as biblical history. He has an extensive website of conservative religious and political articles.http://hebronics.org/index.html

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