Siege Mentality (Cont’d)
Here's an old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 8 years ago, in 2016, on the World Wide Web.
Despite constant siege-mentality rhetoric, constantly invoked as a reason for police to be ever more aggressively controlling, ever more trigger-happy, ever more insulated from criticism in the name of officer safety,
as a matter of fact, there has never been a safer time to be a police officer in the United States.
Shared Article from the Guardian
FBI data showing drop in police deaths undermines 'war on cops' …
Preliminary data show a 20% decrease in number of officers intentionally killed in the line of duty and the second-lowest total in the past 12 years
Jamiles Lartey @ theguardian.com
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