While it is obvious that defunding the police and attacking them as racist along with allowing crime to go unchallenged in our cities is the root cause of a greater number of officers shot in the line of duty, the elites have a different idea.
Here are two of them:
NPR and a fair number of mayors believe it is due to the COVID restrictions being lifted. Read the full article.
A former Obama task force member is promoting the idea that it is actually the fault of the police. A little out there, but why not.