According to statistics released by the FBI on Monday, 51 police officers were killed by "felonious acts" in 2014, nearly twice the number from 2013. All told, 96 officers died in the line of duty in 2014, according to the Bureau. Washington Post: While the number of officers killed feloniously was up significantly year-over-year — there were just 27 officers killed feloniously in 2013, according to the FBI, the lowest number of officers murdered in the line of duty in at least a decade — it remains fewer than the 56 officers murdered in 2010 and 55 officers murdered in 2005. Despite the year-over-year increase, the number of officers that the FBI says were murdered in the line of duty in 2014 was in line with the 10-year average. On average, 50.5 police officers per year have been murdered in the line of duty during the last decade. The FBI’s release last year gave no reason for 2013’s uncharacteristically low number of officers...(Read Full Post)