>By the way, if anyone has a source for national numbers comparing
>violent police deaths versus police shootings of citizens, I'd love a
>URL or a bibliographic citation.
Don't know about the shootings, but 137 cops died on the job in 1998 <http://stats.bls.gov/special.requests/ocwc/oshwc/cfoi/cftb0115.txt>. It was about evenly divided between car accidents & violent assaults.
Doug