Police officers are getting shot more than 20 percent more often in 2019 than the year before with 267 officers shot in the line of duty by Dec. 1 this year, according to the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), a 350,000-strong national police membership organisation.
“The numbers are staggering and should concern every American,” the FOP said in a Dec. 2 tweet. “There is an officer shot every 30 hours in the US ... Violence towards men/women who protect our communities must end and should be condemned by all!”
