{"id":281256,"date":"2016-11-26T21:49:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T20:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sharp-increase-in-2016-police-deaths-report\/"},"modified":"2016-11-26T21:49:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T20:49:54","slug":"sharp-increase-in-2016-police-deaths-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sharp-increase-in-2016-police-deaths-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp increase in 2016 police deaths: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>A research study shows that at least 61 law enforcement officers in the United States have been shot and killed on duty so far this year, underscoring growing anti-police sentiment across the country over police violence against civilians.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The fatality rate was published by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund on Friday, showing a 48 percent increase in comparison with 2015, when firearms were linked to 41 police deaths across the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Last weekend, four officers were targeted while conducting routine traffic stops in three US states of Texas, Florida and Missouri.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Earlier this month, two police officers were fatally shot in ambush-style attacks in Iowa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Earlier this year, five officers in Dallas, Texas, and three officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were fatally shot after police killed two black men in separate incidents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The latest attacks against police happened at a time when anti-police sentiment is high across the US due to a surge of&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/11\/26\/495316\/US-police-officers-National-Law-Enforcement-Officers-Memorial-Fund\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research study shows that at least 61 law enforcement officers in the United States have been shot and killed on duty so far this year, underscoring growing anti-police sentiment across the country over police violence against civilians. The fatality rate was published by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund on Friday, showing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-281256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}