[EAS] BLU Alert Comments.

[Sean Donelan]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, Barry Mishkind wrote:
>        That is because EAS is not just the duck farts and noisy
>        vocal from the Sheriff.  THere are still stations out there
>        that will deliver the message from the alert, adding
>        and emphasising it if it is local enough. Not everyone
>        is automated - yet!

Journalists and news media seem to be just as aggressive covering the 
murder or attempted murder of police officers in states with Blue Alert 
laws as in states without Blue Alert laws.

Between 2008 and 2015, there were 385 feloniously killed police officers 
according to the DOJ LEOKA report. 140 of those deaths occured in states 
with Blue Alert laws enacted at the time (year) of the death. I looked at 
the states with the most officer deaths: 1. Texas, 2. California, 3. 
Florida, 4. Pennslvania, and 5. Louisiana. Three out of five of those 
states have Blue Alert laws.

Using google, I found extensive news coverage by television and newspapers 
of every police officer murder and attempted murder in all five of those 
states. In one case, there was a news story about a police department 
complaining there was too much real-time coverage. Not all blue alerts are 
for officers killed, and not all officers killed have a blue alert.

Between 2008-2015 LEO feloniously killed

1. Texas: 35 LEO deaths, 2 blue alerts, blue alert order in 2008
2. California: 30 LEO deaths, 8 blue alerts, blue alert law in 2011
3. Florida: 25 LEO deaths, 1 blue alert, blue alert law in 2008
4. Pennslvania: 20 LEO deaths, no blue alert law
5. Louisiana: 15 LEO deaths, no blue alert law

For comparison, the states with fewest LEO feloniously killed 2008-2015

1. Wyoming: 0 deaths, no blue alert law
2. Vermont: 0 deaths, no blue alert law
3. Rhode Island: 0 deaths, blue alert law in 2011
4. Maine: 0 deaths, blue alert law in 2015
5. Connecticut: 0 deaths, blue alert law in 2013