More disturbing, 21 officers lost their lives in ambush-style attacks last year, nearly quadrupling the six officers killed in similar attacks in 2015. Has anti-police rhetoric become less heated and has that translated into fewer officers being deliberately targeted by society’s criminal element? Twenty of the 53 officers killed so far in 2017 were felled by gunfire, a modest but still unacceptable increase of five percent over last year. Where the jump was quite a bit more dramatic, however, was in the number of officers killed in auto-related accidents while on duty. In that incident, officers had responded to an apartment complex for a domestic violence call when a man, uninvolved with the call for service, opened fire on the officers.

Source: Fox News June 11, 2017 19:29 UTC