The head of the FBI says violence against police is a 'phenomena' that 'doesn't get enough attention'.
Family members at the funeral of Wilbert Mora, an NYPD officer killed by a suspect in January
Mr Wray said that "some" of the violence against police is "tied to the violent crime problem as a whole". In January, however, the Fraternal Order of Police said that it had recorded 103 "ambush-style attacks" on officers in 2021, resulting in 130 officers shot and 30 killed.In 2020, the FBI's own data estimates that murders rose 29% from 2019, the sharpest increase since national-level record keeping began in 1960.
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