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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUSA Today Wants You to Think Killings of Police Are on the Rise
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/27691-usa-today-wants-you-to-think-killings-of-police-are-on-the-rise"Ambush Recharges Debate," declares the front page of USA Today (12/22/14), a headline over a story about the killing of New York police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu. The "debate" being recharged is presumably linked to the national protests against police brutalityprotests that are in no way connected to this brutal murder.
USA Today's contribution to this debate is to encourage readers to think that murders of police officers like these is becoming more common. A front-page graphic is titled "POLICE DEATHS ON THE RISE," and it shows that overall police deaths increased from 100 last year to 123 this year. The increase is more dramatic when isolating police deaths by firearms: 31 deaths in 2013 and 49 this year.
The paper is very much invested in this storyline; on page 3 the paper runs a story headlined, "Ambush Killings Are Not Uncommon," citing the same statistics.
But these statistics are highly misleadingin part because police deaths are not the same thing as police murders. As Vox (12/22/14) points out, data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Report show that felonious killings of police officers average between 40 and 70 per year; in most years, slightly more officers are killed accidentally.
In the year 2013, Vox notes, many fewer officers were killed than usualso using it as half of a two-year comparison gives a false view of the overall trend, which is basically steady.
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USA Today Wants You to Think Killings of Police Are on the Rise (Original Post)
eridani
Dec 2014
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USA Today also wants you to believe ISIS is recruiting protesters in Ferguson
951-Riverside
Dec 2014
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US Today lies. Free speech. No consequences. Will do it again. We should just all surrender to the
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
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951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)1. USA Today also wants you to believe ISIS is recruiting protesters in Ferguson
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)2. US Today lies. Free speech. No consequences. Will do it again. We should just all surrender to the
lies, they will never end.
Keeping liberals busy pointing out the media lies lets the media move on to the next one as soon as the last one has been pointed out by fact loving liberals.