The number of police officers killed in crimes dropped last year, a
development that could provide a counterweight to arguments that a
backlash against American cops has led to them being targeted for
violence.
Forty-one officers died "feloniously" — as the
result of criminal acts — in 2015, down from 51 in 2014, the FBI
announced Monday.
The decline reversed a dramatic one-year spike
that fueled speculation that cops had come under siege amid a wave of
anti-cop sentiment following a string of high-profile fatal police
shootings.
With the new numbers, that spike looks more like an anomaly.
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