Report: States with high gun ownership see more officers killed

[cigaretteman]

A new study comparing civilian gun ownership and homicides of police officers in the United States has found the rate of police killings was more than three times greater in states with large numbers of armed citizens.

“Law enforcement officers working in states with higher levels of gun ownership faced a greater likelihood of being shot and killed on the job compared with their peers in states with lower gun ownership,” according to the report published in the American Journal of Public Health. “The differences were large.”

Illinois had the 16th lowest police homicide rate and the 8th lowest level of gun ownership, according to David Swedler, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Public Health who co-authored the study.

“Illinois is very low on gun ownership, and pretty low on officer homicides compared nationally,” Swedler said.

The authors of the study collected police homicide rates from an FBI database between 1996 and 2010, counting 782 cases over the 14-year period. The rates were then compared with police employment numbers and state firearm ownership levels.

California, Texas and Florida had the most police homicides, while Iowa, Maine, Vermont and Wyoming had zero homicides over the study period. The national gun ownership average was calculated at 38 percent, with Wyoming having the highest rate of ownership, 62 percent.

Both Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy have been critical of Illinois’ gun laws, and both have advocated stricter regulations.

"When 26 percent of the inmates at Cook County Jail are incarcerated for narcotics-related offenses and only 3.8 percent are incarcerated for gun offenses, the question becomes what is the goal of the criminal justice system?" McCarthy said in May. "Is it to reduce gun violence? Or is it to lock up people for narcotics and narcotics use?”

The study suggests that homicides can be curbed by changes to state laws, but offers no specific policy suggestions.

“We aren’t offering a prescription, just asking people to consider the state gun laws where they live,” Swedler said. “That’s as far as we are taking our conclusions.”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...-see-more-officers-killed-20150814-story.html

 

[Gimmered]

Interesting, Wyoming has the highest gun ownership in the nation and zero Officers shot and killed. Therefore it must be the guns. Love to see a link to the actual study.

 

[bagdropper]

California, Texas, and Florida. Hmmmm, I wonder why people own a lot of guns in those states? Now why could that be...can't put my finger on it for some reason.

Why aren't officers getting shot in Wyoming? 62%...I'd think they'd be getting drilled daily on the mean streets of Casper and Jackson Hole with a number like that.

 

[moral_victory]

California, Texas, and Florida. Hmmmm, I wonder why people own a lot of guns in those states? Now why could that be...can't put my finger on it for some reason.

Because of killer bees?

 

[Old_wrestling_fan]

California, Texas, and Florida. Hmmmm, I wonder why people own a lot of guns in those states? Now why could that be...can't put my finger on it for some reason.

Why aren't officers getting shot in Wyoming? 62%...I'd think they'd be getting drilled daily on the mean streets of Casper and Jackson Hole with a number like that.

Weird, isn't it? I can't seem to identify any other factors, other than the headlined "gun ownership" issue, that could possibly explain these apparent differences.

But it is a "study" and it is in the paper...soooooo, I guess it has to be true.

 

[TexMichFan]

Here is a different look at the data.

http://bearingarms.com/horribly-flawed-research-blames-police-deaths-states-gun-ownership/

David Swedler of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health is the darling of the anti-gun media today with an “old” data report (1996-2010) which claims law enforcement officers are most likely to be killed in those states where most people own guns.

NBC News was among the news outlets willfully taken in by Swedler’s claims:

Police officers are most likely to be killed in states where the most people own guns, a new study finds.

The report is sure to be controversial, but it adds a new dimension to a conversation that’s recently been focused more on police shootings of unarmed Americans.

This study looks at who’s killing the cops, and it’s overwhelmingly people with private guns, David Swedler of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health found.

“If we’re interested in protecting police officers, we need to look at what’s killing them, and what’s killing them is guns,” says Swedler.

Bearing Arms interviewed several guns in response to Mr. Swedler’s claims, including a Beretta 92FS, a Springfield Armory XD, and a Walther PPQ, asking the three handguns if they had any particular animosity towards law enforcement officers.

In response, the three handguns merely sat there, primarily because they are inanimate objects incapable of doing anything unless being purposefully guided by a human being.

I’m no statistician and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Express, but even I know that a report that which claims Wyoming (with the highest level of gun ownership in the nation, and zero gun homicides of police in the 15 years of the study) is more dangerous for law enforcement than Washington, DC (which has some of the highest police homicide rates in the nation) is more damaged than a child actor at Jeff Epstein’s private island.

There are a number of critical flaws in Swedler’s report that render it useless from an academic perspective, though it has certainly found popularity as a propaganda tool.

The NRA then dropped the following data bomb on Swedler’s disinformation campaign using a broader dataset:

Law enforcement officer killings have been decreasing while ownership of firearms has been increasing dramatically. From 1993 to 2013, the most recent year of data from the FBI and BATFE, the annual number of law enforcement officers feloniously killed dropped 61 percent, the number killed with firearms dropped 61 percent, and the number with handguns dropped 64 percent, while the American people acquired 140 million new firearms, including 64 million new handguns. In 2013, the number of law enforcement officers feloniously killed by any means,with any firearms, or with handguns was less than half the annual average of the last 20 years.

Yes, gun ownership is going up, and police homicide rates are plunging.

It’s interesting to note that Swedler conducted his “research” for this propaganda effort while a minion of anti-gun Bloomberg School Of Public Health.

I guess it pays the bills, right, Dave?

 

[Chuck C]

Report: people who drive cars are more likely to die in an auto accident.

Report: Some people say a cucumber is better as a pickle.

 

[MidMOhawk]

Any data on how many officers are killed by legal vs illegal owners?

 

[Vroom_C14]

Here is a different look at the data.

http://bearingarms.com/horribly-flawed-research-blames-police-deaths-states-gun-ownership/

David Swedler of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health is the darling of the anti-gun media today with an “old” data report (1996-2010) which claims law enforcement officers are most likely to be killed in those states where most people own guns.

NBC News was among the news outlets willfully taken in by Swedler’s claims:

Police officers are most likely to be killed in states where the most people own guns, a new study finds.

The report is sure to be controversial, but it adds a new dimension to a conversation that’s recently been focused more on police shootings of unarmed Americans.

This study looks at who’s killing the cops, and it’s overwhelmingly people with private guns, David Swedler of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health found.

“If we’re interested in protecting police officers, we need to look at what’s killing them, and what’s killing them is guns,” says Swedler.

Bearing Arms interviewed several guns in response to Mr. Swedler’s claims, including a Beretta 92FS, a Springfield Armory XD, and a Walther PPQ, asking the three handguns if they had any particular animosity towards law enforcement officers.

In response, the three handguns merely sat there, primarily because they are inanimate objects incapable of doing anything unless being purposefully guided by a human being.

I’m no statistician and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Express, but even I know that a report that which claims Wyoming (with the highest level of gun ownership in the nation, and zero gun homicides of police in the 15 years of the study) is more dangerous for law enforcement than Washington, DC (which has some of the highest police homicide rates in the nation) is more damaged than a child actor at Jeff Epstein’s private island.

There are a number of critical flaws in Swedler’s report that render it useless from an academic perspective, though it has certainly found popularity as a propaganda tool.

The NRA then dropped the following data bomb on Swedler’s disinformation campaign using a broader dataset:

Law enforcement officer killings have been decreasing while ownership of firearms has been increasing dramatically. From 1993 to 2013, the most recent year of data from the FBI and BATFE, the annual number of law enforcement officers feloniously killed dropped 61 percent, the number killed with firearms dropped 61 percent, and the number with handguns dropped 64 percent, while the American people acquired 140 million new firearms, including 64 million new handguns. In 2013, the number of law enforcement officers feloniously killed by any means,with any firearms, or with handguns was less than half the annual average of the last 20 years.

Yes, gun ownership is going up, and police homicide rates are plunging.

It’s interesting to note that Swedler conducted his “research” for this propaganda effort while a minion of anti-gun Bloomberg School Of Public Health.

I guess it pays the bills, right, Dave?

 

[cruhawk]

Interesting, Wyoming has the highest gun ownership in the nation and zero Officers shot and killed. Therefore it must be the guns. Love to see a link to the actual study.

You won't see an actual link, because if there really is one, it will be bogus & headed up by some anti-gun loon.
It's almost axiomatic that areas where it's difficult to legally own a gun (and Illinois--Chicago in particular-- is one of the worst offenders) have some of the highest incidences of violent crime. And, of course, the converse is true.

 

[herk90]

Talk about an epic fail of a study. What is more funny is that Ciggy was unable to see the forest through the trees.

 

[cruhawk]

Talk about an epic fail of a study. What is more funny is that Ciggy was unable to see the forest through the trees.

As is true with most liberals, it goes deeper than that. He doesnt want to see the forest through the trees. He knows the truth, but would rather be intellectually dishonest.

 

[icu81222]

Here is a different look at the data.

http://bearingarms.com/horribly-flawed-research-blames-police-deaths-states-gun-ownership/

David Swedler of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health is the darling of the anti-gun media today with an “old” data report (1996-2010) which claims law enforcement officers are most likely to be killed in those states where most people own guns.

NBC News was among the news outlets willfully taken in by Swedler’s claims:

Police officers are most likely to be killed in states where the most people own guns, a new study finds.

The report is sure to be controversial, but it adds a new dimension to a conversation that’s recently been focused more on police shootings of unarmed Americans.

This study looks at who’s killing the cops, and it’s overwhelmingly people with private guns, David Swedler of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health found.

“If we’re interested in protecting police officers, we need to look at what’s killing them, and what’s killing them is guns,” says Swedler.

Bearing Arms interviewed several guns in response to Mr. Swedler’s claims, including a Beretta 92FS, a Springfield Armory XD, and a Walther PPQ, asking the three handguns if they had any particular animosity towards law enforcement officers.

In response, the three handguns merely sat there, primarily because they are inanimate objects incapable of doing anything unless being purposefully guided by a human being.

I’m no statistician and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Express, but even I know that a report that which claims Wyoming (with the highest level of gun ownership in the nation, and zero gun homicides of police in the 15 years of the study) is more dangerous for law enforcement than Washington, DC (which has some of the highest police homicide rates in the nation) is more damaged than a child actor at Jeff Epstein’s private island.

There are a number of critical flaws in Swedler’s report that render it useless from an academic perspective, though it has certainly found popularity as a propaganda tool.

The NRA then dropped the following data bomb on Swedler’s disinformation campaign using a broader dataset:

Law enforcement officer killings have been decreasing while ownership of firearms has been increasing dramatically. From 1993 to 2013, the most recent year of data from the FBI and BATFE, the annual number of law enforcement officers feloniously killed dropped 61 percent, the number killed with firearms dropped 61 percent, and the number with handguns dropped 64 percent, while the American people acquired 140 million new firearms, including 64 million new handguns. In 2013, the number of law enforcement officers feloniously killed by any means,with any firearms, or with handguns was less than half the annual average of the last 20 years.

Yes, gun ownership is going up, and police homicide rates are plunging.

It’s interesting to note that Swedler conducted his “research” for this propaganda effort while a minion of anti-gun Bloomberg School Of Public Health.

I guess it pays the bills, right, Dave?

As usual, cigaretteman is destroyed.

 

[icu81222]

As is true with most liberals, it goes deeper than that. He doesnt want to see the forest through the trees. He knows the truth, but would rather be intellectually dishonest.

And it is particularly telling that all the leftist maroons run and hide. Yet he and the other dolts will come back another time with the same weak arguments as if they were never corrected before.

Liberalism has a dishonest bias