>--Diversity training! Diversity training! "This is a lethal weapon." "This
>is a vegetable peeler." And by the way, the buzz on the street is supposed
>to be "if you point anything at a cop remotely resembling a weapon, expect
>to get blown away." Of course this doesn't work if there are language
>barriers or mental illness in the picture in the first place.
diversity training, schmaversity training.
i used to tend bar years ago where BCI investigators hung out getting drunk night after night. their conversations largely consisted of telling themselves stories about how dangerous their work was.
in itha-flippin-ca, new york ferchrisakes!
they need some flat statistics on just how NOT dangerous their jobs are. that's another thing i told those cops: gardeners have the same occupational death rate, 11 per 100,000 year. electricians die on the job more often, as do construction workers, truck drivers, garbage collectors, and fisherman.
and, if i'm not mistaken, most LEOs die in traffic accidents, not from wackos involved in DV incidents.
kelley