It hasn't been as much in the news this year, so you might be under the impression that attacks against police officers are down - and maybe that the cultural hostility we saw over the past couple of years toward police has died down. I wish I could tell you that was true, but it's not.
Last week's murder of New York City Ofc. Miosotis Familia did not break a trend toward peace. As Scott Erickson of Americans in Support of Law Enforcement reports, it continued a trend that sees cops even more frequently targeted by rage-driven killers, many of whom simply hate them because they're following a cultural fad that encourages them to do so:
On Wednesday morning, NYPD Officer Miosotis Familia was slain by a lone gunman as she sat in full uniform in a marked patrol vehicle, victimized simply because of her chosen profession.