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Fifty officers were shot and killed in the line of duty this year, compared to 32 in 2013, a 56 percent increase, according to preliminary datapublished by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Fifteen of those officers died in ambushes, including Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in New York this month.
In a statement, Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department was analyzing the incidents and providing training and equipment to help keep cops safe in ambushes and other situations.
"These troubling statistics underscore the very real dangers that America's brave law enforcement officers face every time they put on their uniforms," Holder said.
In general, however, police work is much safer now than it has been in the past. From 1970 to 1979, the average number of officers shot and killed in the line of duty was 127 a year. That figure has declined steadily over the past four decades, as this chart shows. This year's total of 50 is still far, far too many, but it is slightly lower than the annual average since 2010 of 53 deaths per year. These days, more police officers die of other causes on the job than are killed, the data show.
Happy New Year! Wonkbook will return on Monday, Jan. 5.
What's in Wonkbook: 1) Opinions, including Friedersdorf on the NYPD's work stoppage 2) Harvard Law reaches sex-assault agreement 3) Long reads, including James Fallows on the military, and more
Number of the day: 7.1 million. That's how many people have bought health insurance polices this year in the state and federal marketplaces, including returning customers and those who were automatically reenrolled in existing plans. The data is still incomplete, but that figure shows a major improvement over last year, when technological failures prevented all but 106,000 people from signing up for health insurance in the first month of enrollment. Jason Millman in The Washington Post.
Chart of the day:
This flu season is set to be a miserable one. Already, there are a high number of cases, including many severe ones. Margot Sanger-Katz in The New York Times.
1. Top opinionsNew York cops walk off the job. Data suggest that New York police officers have almost entirely stopped enforcing public order in the past week, apparently because they don't think the public appreciates the value of their work. Traffic citations, for example, are down 94 percent. The cops should learn to handle criticism and get back on the beat. The New York Times.
FRIEDERSDORF: Conservatives must condemn police insubordination. "What's unfolding in New York City is, at its core, a public employee union using overheated rhetoric and emotional appeals to rile public employees into insubordination." The Atlantic.
DAVIDSON: It's not clear what the police want, exactly.Gentrification has transformed New York, and the city has become much safer, but the police haven't adjusted. "Suddenly places they didn’t want to patrol are places they can hardly afford to live on an officer’s salary. Their dismay may be understandable. But it should not be enraging." The New Yorker.
DELISLE: Graduates are not repaying their student loan debt. Nearly 20 percent of borrowers are currently in default, and that does not include those who have received forbearance on their repayments or who are in an income-based repayment plan. For many in this group, the government will eventually have to forgive their loans. The Wall Street Journal.
States that insist on capital punishment should at least make sure it is humane. Fewer inmates were executed this year than at any point in the last two decades, but several executions were particularly gruesome. The Washington Post.
RATTNER: The year in charts. The economy is improving and oil prices are falling, but disparities in income are widening. Meanwhile, Obamacare seems to be working, and the public is more polarized by political ideology than ever. The New York Times.
2. Harvard Law agrees to change sex assault polices The law school reached an agreement with the Education Department Tuesday. The department concluded that Harvard had failed to fairly and promptly review allegations of sexual assault. The Harvard case might be the most prominent of the 92 schools whose policies the department is currently examining under Title IX. Juliet Eilperin in The Washington Post.
Primary source: The agreement.
Don't let stories about sex assault on campus distract from other women's struggles. Paid sick leave, widely available day care and attention to violence against women off campus would help working and middle class women. But those stories about those topics don't attract the media's attention in the same way. Batya Ungar-Sargon in The New Republic.
3. Top long reads for the long weekendFALLOWS: Americans are out of touch with their military. And if they'd had more direct experience with it, they might feel more comfortable criticizing it. The Atlantic.
Patients have suffered as hospice has become a for-profit industry. On several metrics, for-profit hospices perform worse than not-for-profit hospices. For example, patients are more likely to drop out of for-profit hospices before they die, indicating they were dissatisfied, they were pushed out to save money or they were pushed into hospice though they had a chance of survival. Peter Whoriskey in The Washington Post.
Americans are working less, but why? A series on declining labor force participation.
-- Men are retiring earlier or taking disability.
-- It doesn't seem to be the safety net.
-- Perhaps technology is to blame, although if so, that would represent a departure from most of economic history.
-- Inadequate maternity leave certainly doesn't help.
-- And not working can be bad for your health.
The New York Times.
In a statement, Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department was analyzing the incidents and providing training and equipment to help keep cops safe in ambushes and other situations.
"These troubling statistics underscore the very real dangers that America's brave law enforcement officers face every time they put on their uniforms," Holder said.
In general, however, police work is much safer now than it has been in the past. From 1970 to 1979, the average number of officers shot and killed in the line of duty was 127 a year. That figure has declined steadily over the past four decades, as this chart shows. This year's total of 50 is still far, far too many, but it is slightly lower than the annual average since 2010 of 53 deaths per year. These days, more police officers die of other causes on the job than are killed, the data show.
Happy New Year! Wonkbook will return on Monday, Jan. 5.
What's in Wonkbook: 1) Opinions, including Friedersdorf on the NYPD's work stoppage 2) Harvard Law reaches sex-assault agreement 3) Long reads, including James Fallows on the military, and more
Number of the day: 7.1 million. That's how many people have bought health insurance polices this year in the state and federal marketplaces, including returning customers and those who were automatically reenrolled in existing plans. The data is still incomplete, but that figure shows a major improvement over last year, when technological failures prevented all but 106,000 people from signing up for health insurance in the first month of enrollment. Jason Millman in The Washington Post.
Chart of the day:
This flu season is set to be a miserable one. Already, there are a high number of cases, including many severe ones. Margot Sanger-Katz in The New York Times.
1. Top opinionsNew York cops walk off the job. Data suggest that New York police officers have almost entirely stopped enforcing public order in the past week, apparently because they don't think the public appreciates the value of their work. Traffic citations, for example, are down 94 percent. The cops should learn to handle criticism and get back on the beat. The New York Times.
FRIEDERSDORF: Conservatives must condemn police insubordination. "What's unfolding in New York City is, at its core, a public employee union using overheated rhetoric and emotional appeals to rile public employees into insubordination." The Atlantic.
DAVIDSON: It's not clear what the police want, exactly.Gentrification has transformed New York, and the city has become much safer, but the police haven't adjusted. "Suddenly places they didn’t want to patrol are places they can hardly afford to live on an officer’s salary. Their dismay may be understandable. But it should not be enraging." The New Yorker.
DELISLE: Graduates are not repaying their student loan debt. Nearly 20 percent of borrowers are currently in default, and that does not include those who have received forbearance on their repayments or who are in an income-based repayment plan. For many in this group, the government will eventually have to forgive their loans. The Wall Street Journal.
States that insist on capital punishment should at least make sure it is humane. Fewer inmates were executed this year than at any point in the last two decades, but several executions were particularly gruesome. The Washington Post.
RATTNER: The year in charts. The economy is improving and oil prices are falling, but disparities in income are widening. Meanwhile, Obamacare seems to be working, and the public is more polarized by political ideology than ever. The New York Times.
2. Harvard Law agrees to change sex assault polices The law school reached an agreement with the Education Department Tuesday. The department concluded that Harvard had failed to fairly and promptly review allegations of sexual assault. The Harvard case might be the most prominent of the 92 schools whose policies the department is currently examining under Title IX. Juliet Eilperin in The Washington Post.
Primary source: The agreement.
Don't let stories about sex assault on campus distract from other women's struggles. Paid sick leave, widely available day care and attention to violence against women off campus would help working and middle class women. But those stories about those topics don't attract the media's attention in the same way. Batya Ungar-Sargon in The New Republic.
3. Top long reads for the long weekendFALLOWS: Americans are out of touch with their military. And if they'd had more direct experience with it, they might feel more comfortable criticizing it. The Atlantic.
Patients have suffered as hospice has become a for-profit industry. On several metrics, for-profit hospices perform worse than not-for-profit hospices. For example, patients are more likely to drop out of for-profit hospices before they die, indicating they were dissatisfied, they were pushed out to save money or they were pushed into hospice though they had a chance of survival. Peter Whoriskey in The Washington Post.
Americans are working less, but why? A series on declining labor force participation.
-- Men are retiring earlier or taking disability.
-- It doesn't seem to be the safety net.
-- Perhaps technology is to blame, although if so, that would represent a departure from most of economic history.
-- Inadequate maternity leave certainly doesn't help.
-- And not working can be bad for your health.
The New York Times.
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