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FBI Report: Killings of Police Officers Declined in 2015, but FBI Worried about Murder Rate Going Up

by Spencer Irvine on

The FBI’s James Comey is concerned that police officers are not going to stop crimes due to the “Ferguson Effect” and the data may point to that:

The number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty decreased from 2014 to 2015, according to preliminary data released by the FBI Monday.

Forty-one officers were killed in the line of duty in 2015, the FBI said, a 20 percent decrease from the 51 officers killed in 2014.

Photo by U.S. Marshals Service


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