On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 01:17 PM, Kelley wrote:
> At 12:20 PM 11/4/03 -0500, DoreneFC at aol.com wrote:
>
>> --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
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