Few other professions are as revered as America's police officers. For most of them, it's not just a job, but a calling. A calling to serve their communities. They deal with human beings at their worst and are often verbally and physically abused. It is also one of the few professions where there is no guarantee that at the end of your shift, you will be going home. Yet they willingly go into dangerous situations. The last few years have been rough ones for police officers, but there is a bit of good news, and it may be directly related to who is currently occupying the White House.
A new report out says that the number of police officers killed in the line of duty across the country so far this year is down by more than 50 percent. Those crunching the numbers say there are a few reasons for the drop in police deaths. One is an improvement in training, but the other may be a move away from anti-police culture since the reelection of President Donald Trump.
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The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund released the mid-year report on Tuesday, which tracks fatality reports for local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. The report showed a 53 percent year-over-year decrease in officer-involved shootings, traffic accidents, or other causes that resulted in an officer fatality while on the job.
Bill Alexander is the CEO of the Memorial Fund, and said:
We as an organization never like to use the words ’good news’ when we’re talking about or reporting on even a single police officer’s death, but I would call this a very welcome and encouraging trend line.
The report showed that on-the-job officer fatalities fell from 28 during the first half of 2024 to 22 between January 1 and June 30 of this year. Traffic-related officer fatalities were cut in half during the same time, from 26 in 2024 to 13 at the end of June 2025. Other officer fatalities from stabbings and assaults, to medical issues, fell from 35 in 2024 to seven so far in 2025. But the best news to come out of these numbers is the fact that the U.S. is on pace for less than 100 line-of-duty deaths by the end of 2025, something that hasn't happened in the more than 50 years that officer fatalities have been tracked.
Most likely because it exposes the disgusting results of Anti-Police, Anti-First Responder, Anti-ICE, and Anti-American rhetoric from the disgraceful Marxist @DNC Party.
Alexander points to better training for officers, which includes more ways to diffuse high-stress situations both safely for the officers and, if possible, in less lethal ways for the suspects. But Alexander says that there is one other factor that has put the kibosh on the anti-police sentiment, and that is the reelection of Donald Trump. He stated:
The profession writ large was targeted and demonized to, I might argue, an unfair degree. Across almost every line of communication, whether that was popular media, social media, mainstream media, maybe even to a worrying degree from too many of our elected officials, again, targeting the profession. I think that that was having a really detrimental impact on a number of interactions between the public and law enforcement.
Modern-day anti-police rhetoric began with the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, and the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. But the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 may have been the most aggressive anti-cop fervor in recent years, and it was actively encouraged by Democrats. "Defund the police" was the slogan for Democrats and the left until Democrats realized that the rest of the nation was not on board with defunding the police, and it would not win elections for them.
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Anti-law enforcement rhetoric and violence are now aimed at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers as the Trump administration carries out deportations of illegal immigrants. However, Alexander believes that the anti-ICE rhetoric that is being seen in parts of the country won't be as pervasive as the nationwide anti-cop sentiment was after Floyd's death, but admits that it is a "worrying trend," and hopes it doesn't continue.
There may be a third cause in the drop in officer deaths. The fact that Americans were simply sick and tired of Democrats' and their useful idiot foot soldiers' anti-cop crap, and elected Donald Trump to be the new sheriff in town.
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