Fri May 19, 2023 – 5:27 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Police warn that an unprecedented number of Canadian officers have been murdered in the last seven months.
On May 11, Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Eric Mueller was shot to death and two officers sustained non-life-threatening injuries in what police are calling an ambush, making Mueller the ninth Canadian officer to be murdered since fall 2022.
“It’s as if there is an actual attack on the policing community,” Matthew Cox, president of the Ottawa Police Association, told The Epoch Times. “We have never seen this before in Canada.”
According to Cox, the surge in murderous violence has caused officers to be scared to go to work. He attributed the rise in part to a loss of respect for police among Canadians.
“I think that the government needs to get itself involved and start toughening up on the crime bills,” Cox urged.
The eight other fallen officers include two women.
On March 27, a suspect in Louiseville, Quebec, stabbed Sûreté du Québec (SQ) Sgt. Maureen Breau to death. The 42-year-old was a mother of two.
On March 16, Edmonton Constables Travis Jordan, 35, and Brett Ryan, 30, who
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