Posted October 24, 2017 12:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

The police have a tough job, and it’s not really the job of the press to make it easier as a general rule. The two jobs bump into one another a time or two, but they tend to be pretty different.

That said, it doesn’t help with the media presents facts one way, lacking perspective, all so they can make it look like the police are nothing more than trigger-happy nutjobs just waiting to blow someone away.

Take this post from Politico titled, “We may have a treatment for our police shooting epidemic; we’re just not using it“.

Just 24 days into 2015, police in the U.S. had 59 fatal encounters, while police in all of England and Wales have had 55 fatal encounters in the last 24 years.

At this point U.S. police are on track to kill at least 1,000 people for the third consecutive year. Their counterparts in England and Wales are on track to kill four.

Yes, the U.S. may have a population that’s at least six times greater than England and Wales combined, but this year our police are likely to kill almost 250 times more suspects than theirs will.

All this begs questions …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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