A new FBI report reveals that assaults on law enforcement officers in the U.S. reached a 10-year high in 2023, with more than 79,000 officer attacks reported. Despite a slight decrease in the number of officers killed in the line of duty last year, with sixty officers killed, the period from 2021 to 2023 saw more officers killed than any other three-year period in the past 20 years. The 2023 Special Report highlights a troubling increase in gun violence as a driving factor behind the rise in assaults.
BREAKING: From 2021 to 2023, more U.S. police officers were killed in the line of duty than in any other three-year period in the past 20 years, FBI says. Additionally, assaults on U.S. law enforcement reached a 10-year high in 2023. The FBI points out that 28 of the 2023 cop… https://t.co/LMuKJGy3Mc
The rate of assaults on American law enforcement reached a 10-year high in 2023, with more than 79,000 officer attacks reported, according to a new FBI report released Tuesday. https://t.co/dMla7HTOzE
FBI Releases Officers Killed and Assaulted in the Line of Duty, 2023 Special Report and Law Enforcement Employee Counts https://t.co/fsVAjNLiKz
Assaults on law enforcement in U.S. reached a 10-year high in 2023, the FBI says https://t.co/i1xHCxvrER https://t.co/PxMSrRAC9i
Sixty law enforcement officers across the country were killed in the line of duty last year — a decrease of one from the year prior — but assaults on officers in the field are on the rise, driven by increases in gun violence, new FBI report finds. https://t.co/Tuyl5expJO