(CNN) The Republican Party gathered in Cleveland on Thursday for the fourth night of its convention, and CNN's Reality Check Team put the speakers' statements and assertions to the test. The team of reporters, researchers and editors across CNN listened throughout the speeches and selected key statements, rating them true; mostly true; true, but misleading; false; or it's complicated. Donald Trump Reality Check: Trump on police officers killed By Sonam Vashi, CNN "The number of police officers killed in the line of duty has risen by almost 50% compared to this point last year," the Republican nominee said. Even with the recent, tragic shootings of police in Dallas and Baton Rouge, the number of officers killed in the line of duty is actually about the same as this point last year, according to data from the Officer Down Memorial Page. If we look at just police killed by gunfire, 31 officers have been killed this year, compared with 17 killed in the first seven months of 2015. That's an 82% increase.Reporters, researchers and editors across CNN listened to the speechesCNN rated key statements as either true; mostly true; true, but misleading; false; or it's complicated
We're going to rate _'s claim about police deaths as true, but misleading, because even though police shooting deaths are up by a significant amount from this time last year, they are not far off from the annual average.