Ambushes on police are clustering

While that idea documents rising targeted attacks on officers, this article documents the converse risk: escalation and lethal outcomes in street encounters with federal agents; together they show a two‑way dynamic of violence and enforcement that affects policing tactics and public safety.

While not strictly sniper ambushes, the piece documents a cluster of vehicle‑based confrontations that create ambush‑like officer‑safety situations; it connects to the broader pattern of targeted attacks and elevated risks for law enforcement when protest tactics move into close‑quarters roadway coercion.

The article lists a string of recent violent attacks (Sydney massacre, assaults in U.S. cities, subway and retail stabbings) and frames them as part of a wider uptick in targeted and urban violence; that concrete catalogue maps directly onto the existing idea that violent and ambush‑style attacks in Western cities are clustering and warrant distinct policy responses.

Both pieces center policing and violent crime as a policy problem: the Heritage commentary argues a pullback or change in proactive policing after George Floyd explains the 2020 homicide spike, while the existing item documents rising targeted attacks on officers and the secondary effects on policing capacity and public safety. The article’s focus on how policing practice and perceptions shape violence links to the existing idea’s concern about threats to officer safety and consequent systemic effects.

The article reports dozens of police injuries, deliberate attempts to break police lines, and organized blockades at transit points — concrete instances of confrontational protest tactics that map onto the existing pattern of targeted attacks and rising risk to officers described in the idea.

The article documents a targeted ambush of National Guard members in Washington, D.C., by an alleged lone attacker—an incident in the same family of attacks described by the existing idea that ambush‑style attacks on security forces are clustering and raising operational and political concerns.

Specific attacks listed: Alvarado ICE detention center (July 4), McAllen Border Patrol annex (July 8), Lorain County ambush (July 23), Tremonton domestic call (Aug 17), York County ambush (Sept 17), Dallas ICE office sniping (latest).