The problem is really nationwide. It is a problem that started with 9-11 and got worse with The Great Recession. This was made worse by Globalization. And unfortunately it is likely to get much worse.
So, I would say the next 10 or 20 years in the U.S. it is not a good or safe time to be a police officer. The problem is not what most people think.
The problem is the death of the middle Class of the western world caused by Globalization and 9-11 and the siphoning off of American wealth into Iraq and Afghanistan in the Wars there.
So, the death of the middle class in the U.S. is the main reason cops are getting shot. Though you might not see the correlation that is the real reason this is happening.
The other thing that harmed the country was "The Great Recession". Also, what most people don't know about the Great Recession is that the causes of it were actually much much worse than the Great Depression. However, luckily we had Bernanke as head of the Fed who had studied in detail the problems causing the Great Depression which was one of the reasons we survived it as well as we did. For example, we didn't have to go to 25% unemployment nationwide like then. Instead we only made it to 10% average nationwide unemployment.
Another reason is the wealth of the U.S. where everyone could share in the wealth when President Johnson was President is no more. This was one of the reasons the Civil Rights Bill was able to pass then. At that time the average person was more wealthy than ever before or since in what their wages and money could buy. This is no longer true and as the middle class dies and the poor get poorer they are getting angrier and losing hope. This isn't good for our nation.
If we don't find a way to bring equality or at least the hope of equality back to the U.S. there likely will be many disturbances more to come in the present and future.
How do we bring equality back to the U.S. ?
How do we bring equal rights to a good life and prosperity back to the U.S.?
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