Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, a police officer from Fox Lake, IL, was gunned down yesterday by 3 thugs. Two of the suspects remain at large in one of the largest manhunts in the history of Northern Illinois. Officer Glinewicz was the 3rd Illinois cop to die in the line of duty this year and the 8th gunned down in the past month nationwide. That works out to about 100 dead policemen over the course of a year. But are the deaths of police on the rise? Christian Science Monitor: So far, there is no indication that Lieutenant Gliniewicz was intentionally targeted, though investigators are not ruling out that possibility, according to Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Cmdr. George Filenko, the lead investigator on the case. Gliniewicz was pursuing three men – two white, one black – at the time of his death. No clear suspects have yet been identified in the Gliniewicz shooting.   While the recent deaths of Gliniewicz and Deputy...(Read Full Post)