I would be really interested to see where this number comes from. According to this year’s report from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, 264 law enforcement officers — local, state, federal — died in the line of duty. Of those, 48 were shot and killed. 
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1385283531853676545
44 officers were killed in traffic accidents.
And 172 died of other causes, mostly COVID, although one officer was beaten to death. If we add that to the 48 firearms fatalities, that gives us 49 officers “intentionally murdered,” only three of whom died during traffic enforcement, fwiw. Source here. nleomf.org/wp-content/upl…
There’s obviously the point to make that policing is far from the most dangerous profession in terms of “likelihood of being killed on the job” but even before we get to that, I really want to know where Fang got “more than 60 intentionally murdered.”
Also! If we really wanted to save police lives — and COVID notwithstanding — we would get them out of cars.
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