This is off topic, but, it only was published about seven hours ago and it relates to "Stop and Fisk, too."

A Los Angeles police officer (click here) stands guard outside Parker Center (L), headquarters for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The number of suspects killed by police in Los Angeles County rose nearly 70 percent in 2011 over the previous year. In two-thirds of cases, the suspect was armed.


The killing of suspects might be up, but, so are the killing of police officers. 


The article here is about the entire country, I don't know off hand how many LA officers have been killed in the line of duty in 2010-2011.


There are too many guns on the street. It is just that simple. Officers have a right to protect themselves while carrying out their duties. 


There are a lot of civil rights issues being generated and rights that are overrun by authorities these days. "Stop and Fisk" is one of the more disturbing ones, but, these impingements on Civil Rights and over reaching is due to the lack of sufficient laws to prevent officers from being confronted with fire arms more deadly than they carry.


You know in Jamaica the military are also the police of the country and they carry automatic weapons, is that what the USA is coming to or are we going to remove danger from out streets to bring down the defense stand of police officers?




updated 12/28/2010 11:11:20 AM ET
By GREG BLUESTEIN
Associated Press

Two officers (click here) in a remote Alaska town were ambushed as they chatted on a street. Two California deputies were killed by an arson suspect with a high-powered rifle as they tried to serve him a warrant. Two other officers doing anti-drug work were gunned down by men along a busy Arkansas highway.

These so-called cluster killings of more than one officer helped make 2010 a particularly dangerous year for law enforcement. Deaths in the line of duty jumped 37 percent to about 160 from 117 the year before, according to numbers as of Dec. 28 compiled by the, The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, a nonprofit that tracks police deaths....

This increase of fire power by police officers has been escalating since the Bush years where we saw barrage of bullets being used in circumstances of unarmed individuals suspect of being armed. I remember reading about a man driving his SUV and having bullets drilled into it because he was mistaken to be armed. Then there was the buffalo killings, remember? Rather than tranquilizers or rangers to show up the poor animals were brutally gunned down. 

At any rate, the confrontation between police and citizens is growing and it has been from some time now. There are way to many guns in the USA. It seems fairly obvious to me as the number of guns in the country has increased in numbers, so has dead police officers. I can't think of a better reason to rethink this issue.


Civil rights are important and the insult to them has increased as the number of deaths of officers has increased in correlation with the number of guns in the country. What are we doing and the Second Amendment was never written for this to occur.

December 28, 2011

By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com

...Preliminarydata compiled (click here) by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund showed that 173 federal, state and local officers have been killed on the job so far this year, 13 percent more than the 153 who died in 2010 — and 42 percent more than the 122 officers who were killed in 2009....