So - jumping into a battle on a Mountain Village map, Ben and I found ourselves defending the US positions. Tank stealing!- Me trying to be Indiana Jones (or something)!- More of Ben’s hilariously inept bike-riding!- Ben’s heroic solo capture!- Me taking one for the team and distracting a tank while on foot!.It’s really great to see all the new folks coming along to check out how the in-game action and strategic map come together to create a genuinely compelling player-generated theatre of war – and it’s so useful to get all the feedback too… so keep it up, troops!īut back to our own personal exploits (which, by the way, are directly taken from our in-game adventures)… This week: 31, 2020Įmail exchange, Lori Fridell, professor of criminology, University of South Florida, Sept.So first up, before I bring you this week’s instalment of Tales from the Front, I just wanted to say how excited we’ve been to see the response to Heroes & Generals since last week’s announcement of going open beta. 31, 2020Įmail exchange, Frank Edwards, assistant professor, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers - Newark, Aug. 2020Įmail exchange, Michael Gwin, spokesman, Biden for President, Aug. Cahill, press liaison, Fraternal Order of Police, Aug. Rushing, communications director, Officer Down Memorial Page, Aug. 31, 2020įederal Bureau of Investigation, Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, accessed Sept. National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, COVID-19 and its impact on law enforcement, Aug. National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, Preliminary 2020 Fallen Officer Fatalities, Aug. 31, 2020įraternal Order of Police, COVID-19 Line-of-Duty Deaths, accessed Aug. Officer Down Memorial Page, 2020 Honor Roll of Heroes, Aug. Officer Down Memorial Page, Fallen Officers From the COVID-19 Pandemic, Aug. The COVID-19 death toll is still the greatest single cause of death when those occupations are excluded.Ĭ-SPAN, Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on Public Safety and Law Enforcement, Aug. While these occupations are counted as part of law enforcement, they might not come to mind as the cops that Biden referred to. Some Customs and Border Protection field officers and other first responders are also included. Roughly one-third of these tallies include corrections and detention center officers who work inside institutions where the virus can spread more readily. The caveat to Biden’s claim is there is some statistical fuzziness regarding who is a cop and what it means to be on patrol. Tallies of deaths by two national groups show that COVID-19 has killed more law enforcement officers than gunfire and other hazards of the job in 2020. Biden didn’t say exactly what the best data show, but the comparison is largely accurate. That stat raised eyebrows, and we checked to see if it was true. "More cops have died from COVID this year than have been killed on patrol." "Do you feel safer under Donald Trump?" Biden asked Aug. In a speech in Pittsburgh, Democratic nominee Joe Biden said Trump was neither. At the Republican National Convention, President Donald Trump cast himself as a stalwart friend of police and an effective leader in the fight against COVID-19.