Skylar
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Here's the problem with the 'federally funded vests since 1999' narrative: Cop deaths shot up after 1999. Even taking 911 off the table, cop deaths jumped by 20% in 2 years....and stayed higher than 1999 levels until Obama was elected. If federally funded vests reduced cop deaths then federally funded vests would have reduced cop deaths.
And with the percentage of cops being assaulted ALSO going down as cop deaths are going down.....its safer to be a cop. Any given cop is just less likely to be hurt.
The 'war on cops' narrative is horseshit.
Hey moron. The Feds began funding it in 1999. Guess what? Government is fucking slow. That money goes to agencies. They spend months fitting officers then ordering. Time taken to get them shipped and issued.
Lets this think this through, Bucky. According to you, the cops didn't have vests before 1999. Then the government starts giving them vests. Slowly. So in 2000...the had everything they had in 1999, plus more vests. And yet MORE cops died. In 2001, they had everything they did in 1999 plus even more vests. Yet even MORE cops died, jumping up 20% from 1999 levels even taking out all the cops that died in 911.
In 2002....2003....2004....2005.....2006....2007...2008....they had everything they did in 1999. Plus even more vests each year.
But the death rate was STILL above 1999 levels.
If vests from the feds dropped cop deaths, there would have been a drop in cop deaths. Your argument doesn't work. Its pure, molten shit. It wasn't until Obama was elected and took office...in 2009 that cop deaths dropped below 1999 levels. And shocker, so did over all crime and violence rates.....until they reached their near 30 year lows today.
Well for one....deaths vary year to year. It's the nature of the job.
Then what's all this panty shitting about how deaths now are the 'democrats fault'?
You can't have it both ways. Especially when cops deaths are hovering near a 30 year low, per capita cops are safer now than they've been in 30 to 40 years, and the percentage of cops being assaulted has been on a downward slide for nearly a decade.
Your 'war on cops' narrative is horseshit.
The *attacks* are. Attacks may or not be fatal. Doesn't mean they aren't up. And every street cop in America says attacks and resisting incidents are up.
And what is your evidence that the 'attacks' are motivated by 'democrats' or the 'democrats fault'?
You've got jack shit to back that up. For example, tonights shooting in Texas: Fort Worth police officer shot, suspect killed - CNN.com
Prove it was 'democrats fault'. With evidence please.
You guys own this.
Then it will be remarkably easy for you to prove that factually.
Thankfully vests, trauma care and militarized tactics have given a LOT more protection and survivability to cops.
Your argument is literally if cop deaths go UP...its just variation from year to year. If cop deaths go DOWN....its a war on cops caused by democrats.