Last spring was a bloody time for police officers. Chicago buried three officers in fast succession. Tampa/St. Pete, where I live, saw two officers gunned down and two more wounded (seven more police in Florida, three in Tampa/St. Pete alone, have been shot to death since then). Nationwide, by the end of the year, 59 cops had been murdered in shootings. The previous year, 2009, ended on a bloody note, too. On November 29, in Lakewood, Washington, Maurice Clemmons gunned down four officers as they sat eating breakfast in a restaurant.
Maurice Clemmons ...