Emergence Of The American Police State: Example #1

[KissMy]

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[MikeK]

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This represents a 13 percent increase over the 153 officers killed in 2010 and an alarming 42 percent spike when compared to the 122 officers who lost their lives in the line of duty in 2009. The primary cause of death in 2011 was gunfire, which claimed the lives of 68 officers and nearly matched the decade-long high of 69 firearms-related deaths in 2007.

Police officers get paid to RISK their lives, they don't actually get paid to die.

Neither do coal-miners, ironworkers, sandhogs and nightline taxi drivers -- but they do from time to time. In spite of the statistics you've posted policework is far from the most dangerous job in America. But because we live in what happens to be the most authoritarian culture since the Third Reich, whenever a police officer is killed it's Page-One news and there is a bagpipe parade.

By doing a page by page scan of the TV Guide it becomes apparent that Americans are addicted to police drama (authority assertion). Glorification of police is by far the most popular genre in American entertainment.

Why is that so?