as they were called about a stabbing. they were acting as a first line of defense when they were ambushed. reporter: there have been 63 ambush style attacks on law enforcement through september of this year, according to the fop. at least 93 officers shot in those onslaughts, 24 died as a result. in bristol, connecticut last week, three officers were allegedly ambushed and shot. only one survived. the gunman may have lured them there by making a call to 911. shots fired. send everyone. he s down! oh, god! one down. suspect down. reporter: in 2021, data from the fbi showed the highest number of law enforcement officers were intentionally killed in the line of duty since the september 11th, terrorist attacks 20 years earlier. this mirrors a rise in gun
hear from a lot of politicians and people across media outlets, we re seeing a spike in retirements, too, in departments across the state and resignation is up 20% affording to fop. this comes as the community in bristol, connecticut you can see here is grieving the loss of two police officers. they had a big vigil over the weekend. t they were killed respond to go a domestic disturbance. and investigators say that call was made to lure the officers to the house and they opened up with an ar-15. and off duty police officer torres was killed on the way into work on thursday, he was one of five people killed in that mass shooting. investigators tell us the 15 #-year-old boy opened fire near a nature trail. the president of north carolina s fraternal order of police says that morale is
like infusing injustice into the criminal justice system. just pulling back the veneer justice looks like to me when we claim we are back to blue and blue lives matter, that only is applicable if you re the right shade of blue, or the right hugh abloom. we haven t heard anything from the fop, the international police, none of them have condemned these actions. they just attacked me. that says a lot. i don t know it blue lives matter means, i ve never seen anyone with blue skin. thank you for telling you re story, rashall brackney, we ll keep our eye on this case. and thank you charles, for taking time to be with us this morning. coming up the emotional toll that hurricane katrina took on kids. you don t miss this, an important discussion is coming up right after this break. stay with us. with us
new york and across this nation who basically submitted citizens to a failed social experiment and it has been a complete disaster. they had no statistical data or studies to back it up. they just did it. they played with people s lives, harris, and they lost. and the perverse thing is they aren t reversing course and stopping these things. they also know that violent crime is disproportionately impacting our minority communities to the tune of 12 times the homicide rate with black americans compared to everyone else and they won t stop. i lay the pain and suffering and trauma of these victims and families directly at their feet and you will be damn sure the fop will make sure people won t forget who did this to them and we have to work together collectively to make sure it s never done to our communities again. harris: it would be great to get help from leadership. if the mayor from new york with the statistics that we put up