FBI Director Christopher Wray issued a warning about the increasing rate of murders of police officers in recent months, saying the trend is outpacing violent crime nationwide.
During a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday, Wray said that murders of police officers rose about 59 percent in 2021 over the previous year, while the total murder rate rose about 29 percent in 2021 as compared with 2020. Seventy-three officers were killed last year, he added.
“Violence against law enforcement in this country is one of the biggest phenomena that I think doesn’t get enough attention,” Wray said in the interview, saying that “one every five days” are being killed across the United States.
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