{"id":131215,"date":"2016-08-07T13:16:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T19:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/07\/fact-checking-trump-police-shootings-edition.html"},"modified":"2016-08-07T13:16:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T19:16:13","slug":"fact-checking-trump-police-shootings-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/07\/fact-checking-trump-police-shootings-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Fact-checking Trump (Police Shootings Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, Donald, &quot;they&quot; are <i>not<\/i> &quot;shooting our police at record levels.&quot; Nowhere close. <\/p>\n<p>Not that any police shootings are good things (or any shootings in general), but this sort of demagoguery benefits nobody but the politicians (like Trump) who want to gin up fear of &quot;them.&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2016\/08\/police-shootings-not-at-a-record-level\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/aVwZVW3s48urVjn1OOAM0GOfvTJOBFFjY8_op6KXAhZodQ7JwIYvb9oKn35lkzQaFPKh7Q96hr-G53TYH4R4MS1-Nk-hhVFgpvYFbudmBEz-9ui503D1YrhvCJraEseeEqKY-cPHcU50=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2016\/08\/police-shootings-not-at-a-record-level\/'>Police Shootings Not at a Record Level<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nDonald Trump wrongly said that &ldquo;they&#8217;re shooting our police at record levels.&rdquo; The record for police firearm deaths, and deaths of officers overall, in recent decades was set in the 1970s. He went on to say those shootings were up 50 percent or &ldquo;much higher than that from last year.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/a25mkRfA1tv'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, Donald, &quot;they&quot; are not &quot;shooting our police at record levels.&quot; Nowhere close. Not that any police shootings are good things (or any shootings in general), but this sort of demagoguery benefits nobody but the politicians (like Trump) who want to gin up fear of &quot;them.&quot; Police Shootings Not at a Record Level Donald Trump &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/07\/fact-checking-trump-police-shootings-edition.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fact-checking Trump (Police Shootings Edition)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127829,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/28\/guns-madness-no-mass-shootings-are-clearly-about-secular-progressivism.html","url_meta":{"origin":131215,"position":0},"title":"Guns? 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