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Experts look for clues to increasing number of law enforcement fatalities
In 2011, a slow and steady rise in the number of law enforcement officers killed on the job capped out with 177 officers being killed on the job, by suspect’s gunfire, in traffic accidents and in other ways. That’s despite a steady decline in violent crime. Now officials are trying to figure out why — and why 2012 is shaping up differently.