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