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American carnage': Is Trump's bleak vision of the States justified?

Amid his presidential battle, and since taking office, Donald Trump has over and over cautioned of the perils confronting the United States.

"I have taken in a considerable measure in the previous two weeks," he told a meeting of cops in Washington DC on Wednesday.

"Psychological warfare is a far more prominent danger than the general population of our nation get it. Will deal with it."

His remarks came as the fight in court proceeded over his travel restriction on individuals from seven Muslim-larger part countries. Not setting up the boycott would mean the US "can never have the security and wellbeing to which we are entitled", he said on Twitter.

On Wednesday, he regretted inward city brutality, and additionally the killing of cops.

It is a dream of an America brimming with risk, with various dangers on many fronts, exemplified by the new president's inaugural address referencing "American gore". Yet, is it revise?

Police fatalities

Media captionIn July 2016, the BBC's More or Less program explored the questionable numbers around police shootings in the USA.

"The quantity of officers shot and killed in the line of obligation a year ago expanded by 56% from the prior year," President Trump said on Wednesday. What's more, the measurement is precise, dissimilar to some others he has cited before.

The quantity of officers shot and executed in the line of obligation did in reality bounce 56%, from 41 in 2015 to 64 a year ago - that is as indicated by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

It is a stark measurement. All the more stark still is the way that 21 of those officers were executed in snare style shootings, a 163% expansion on the earlier year.

Nonetheless, it is inaccurate to peruse from this that a rush of police shootings has cleared the nation. Eight of those killings were in two attacks in 10 days in July 2016, in Dallas, Texas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and happened with regards to challenges police killings of African-Americans.

"A year ago in Dallas, cops were focused for execution - think about this, whoever knew about this?" President Trump told the meeting of cops.

Be that as it may, the focusing of cops is not in itself another wonder - it is just that 2016 had higher numbers than some time recently. Furthermore, measurements demonstrate that officers are still more prone to be shot dead reacting to a household unsettling influence than some other occurrence.

Truth be told, on the off chance that you take a gander at the master plan, police passings on obligation have been dropping for quite a while.

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