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The Washington Post follows up on the death of a police officer in September who had radioed that he was in pursuit of three men and was later found shot. People called him a hero, and the nation made note of his death as further evidence of police being under attack.

On Wednesday morning, however, officials are expected to shatter that image of Gliniewicz as a heroic officer cut down in the line of duty. Instead, they will announce that the veteran cop killed himself in an elaborately staged suicide, the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times reported, quoting police individuals.

The story also mentions the case of an Arkansas police officer, David Houser, who has been fired for lying about being shot at during a traffic stop.

Sgt. David Houser, 50, of the England Police Department was charged with filing a false police report, according to KTHV-TV. Houser had claimed that he was shot in his bulletproof vest during an Oct. 24 traffic stop.

"Houser told local and state law enforcement officers that while on patrol that he had exchanged gunfire with a suspect who fled from him driving a sport utility vehicle south of England along state Highway 15," Arkansas State Police said in a press release obtained by the local TV station. "Houser also reported he had been shot by the suspect."

As with the Illinois case, this report lead to a massive hunt for (imaginary) suspects.

The article cites FBI data, which says "[...] assaults on police officers dropped sharply in 2014 and are at their lowest point since 1996."

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