>I'm working on an article called "Demythologizing the Police: Moving
>Beyond the Cult of the Dead Cop." I've been doing some research and
>found, thanks to this list, some great BLS stats about the fatality
>rates for police.
>
>What I need now, and have had some difficulty finding, is good data on
>how often, how many citizens are killed, shot, assaulted by police
>nationally.
>
>Does anyone have a good resource for that kind of thing?
Doesn't seem to be in the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics <http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/>. Try the Bureau of Justice Stats helpdesk <mailto:askbjs at ojp.usdoj.gov>.
The Sourcebook has more data on cops being shot.
Doug