{"id":287931,"date":"2016-12-31T04:58:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T03:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-police-deaths-reach-135-this-year-highest-in-five-years\/"},"modified":"2016-12-31T04:58:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T03:58:56","slug":"us-police-deaths-reach-135-this-year-highest-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-police-deaths-reach-135-this-year-highest-in-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"US police deaths reach 135 this year, highest in five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A total of 135 US police officers were killed in the line of duty in 2016, the highest number in the past five years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The number also marks a 10-percent increase from last year, according to data by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF).<\/p>\n<p>At least 64 of the fallen officers were shot dead, which is a 56-percent rise compared to the 41 officers, who were\u00a0shot and killed last year.<\/p>\n<p>At least 21 of the officers were killed in ambush style attacks, amid growing anti-police sentiments across the US due to their excessive use of force against minorities.<\/p>\n<p>A separate report by the NLEOMF shows that ambush-style killings of US police forces have increased by 300 percent since last year.<\/p>\n<p>In July, five officers in Dallas, Texas, and 10 days later, three officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were fatally shot following the police fatal shootings of two black men in separate incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Texas had the most officer deaths this year at 17 cops, followed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/31\/504169\/US-police-officers-killed-NLEOMF\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 135 US police officers were killed in the line of duty in 2016, the highest number in the past five years. The number also marks a 10-percent increase from last year, according to data by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF). At least 64 of the fallen officers were shot [&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-287931","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\/287931","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=287931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}