Fwd: 2000-05-11 Proclamation on Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sat May 13 10:35:11 PDT 2000


On Fri, 12 May 2000, Doug Henwood wrote:


> 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.


>From the May 2000 Harper's Index:

Chance that a U.S. fisherman died on the job in 1998: 1 in 718 Chance that a U.S. police officer did: 1 in 4,613

and as Doug noted, half of those were the result of car accidents.

Michael

__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com



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