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This open carrier for officer down true facts....

jsanchez

jsanchez

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One of the arguments on the background check commercials is that it will make our officers safer, maybe. But what does our past tell us,

http://www.odmp.org/search/browse?state=WA

In the last 10 years there has been 10 officers killed, 5 in one year, and there were a couple of back to back years that no officers were killed.

Of the officers that were killed by guns, how many would have been saved by background checks. I say none. Prove me wrong.
 
OC for ME

OC for ME

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Aircraft accident: 7
Animal related: 2
Assault: 9
Automobile accident: 21
Bomb: 1
Drowned: 7
Duty related illness: 4
Electrocuted: 1
Fall: 3
Gunfire: 146
Gunfire (Accidental): 12
Heart attack: 12
Motorcycle accident: 16
Stabbed: 4
Struck by train: 3
Struck by vehicle: 8
Vehicular assault: 13
Vehicle pursuit: 9
 
J

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OC for ME said:
Aircraft accident: 7
Animal related: 2
Assault: 9
Automobile accident: 21
Bomb: 1
Drowned: 7
Duty related illness: 4
Electrocuted: 1
Fall: 3
Gunfire: 146
Gunfire (Accidental): 12
Heart attack: 12
Motorcycle accident: 16
Stabbed: 4
Struck by train: 3
Struck by vehicle: 8
Vehicular assault: 13
Vehicle pursuit: 9
Click to expand...

What time frame is this from? I ask because only 111 cops total were killed in 2013, only 33 from gunfire. 121 cops total were killed in 2012.
 
OC for ME

OC for ME

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Cops would be better served to let citizens work out minor disagreements.

Why in the hell does a cop, or the state for that matter, need to get involved in a dispute between a dude with over grown grass in his front yard and his neighbor who does not like it.
 
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