ANNALS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT – AT 11:54 A.M. ET:  The state of the law-enforcement community is not good, and the recent anti-cop hysteria is taking its toll.   From the Washington Times: 

Law enforcement morale is at an all-time low as uniformed officers endure increased pushback from the communities and politicians they’re risking their lives to protect, and a new report released Monday shows on-duty law enforcement deaths in 2014 occurring at nearly twice the previous year’s rate.

“One of the things that we’ve seen just lately, that we’ve never seen before, is police officers are telling their own families, and their own children, ‘Don’t go into this line of duty, this line of work, because it’s not worth it any more,’” said Bill Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations.

The number of law enforcement officers who were feloniously killed in the line of duty in 2014 increased 89 percent as compared to the year prior — with most dying after being shot by gun-carrying criminals, according to a preliminary report issued by the FBI on Monday.

In raw numbers, 51 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty in 2014, versus 27 such deaths in 2013.

The FBI report Monday was preliminary; the complete annual report will be released in the fall.

And the number killed in deliberate ambush attacks has tripled in a year, according to data collected by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. In 2014 there were 15 officers killed in fatal ambushes compared to five in 2013, the group said.

Police unions are “very much concerned” over the increased number of attacks on officers, which seem to be planned ambushes and unprovoked attacks, Mr. Johnson said.

The recent fatal attacks on New York police officer Brian Moore, 25, as well as Hattiesburg, Mississippi, police officers Benjamin Deen, 34, and Liquori Tate, 25, have resonated with law enforcement officers nationwide, said Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association President Jon Adler.

COMMENT:  Who will be the next generation of police officers?  Where will we get them?  Will they be interested in protecting the community, or "understanding" the criminals? 

After years of good government in New York City, under Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg, New Yorkers reverted to form and elected a leftist Democratic mayor.  Now crime is rising rapidly again, and the mayor, Bill de Blasio, is spending increasing amounts of time out of the city, campaigning for a national "progressive" agenda.  Will the media hold him to account?  Will the people of the city?

I really do feel that America is at a crossroads.  And too many Americans, led by a liberal media, leftist college professors, and go-along "artists," may take the wrong road.

May 12, 2015