[lbo-talk] San Jose Cop Kills Vietnamese Woman and Found Not Guilty

Kelley the-squeeze at pulpculture.org
Tue Nov 4 11:31:59 PST 2003


At 01:51 PM 11/4/03 -0500, jeffrey fisher wrote:
>kelley: i'd love to see those flat stats. any references to hand?

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.t02.htm http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.t03.htm http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/archive/spring2001art2.pdf

etceterataratarah! :) you can find more at the bls. sorry for the quick and dirty cut'n'paste job below. didn't look around long enough to find any evidence to support the tentative claim that more sizzlean die from traffic accidents than from firearm/knife homicides but i think that might have been something a client told me. he used to work for the DC police:

The occupation one chooses and the industry in which one works are two of the greatest risk factors for be-ing the victim of an occupational homi-cide. Inequalities in access to the labor market and unequal distribution of risk within jobs are potential explanations for racial disparity in occupational fa-talities. 15 Occupations with high num-bers of homicides include those in which workers typically engage in cash transactions or have valuables on hand, such as managers of food and lodging establishments, sales supervisors and proprietors, cashiers, and taxicab driv-ers. 16 For many high-risk industries, the risk is excessive for male workers only.17

In 1993, for example, the occupation with the largest share of occupational homicides was taxi drivers and chauf-feurs, with a rate of 43.1 per 100,000 employed.18 This occupation ac-counted for almost one-tenth of all vic-tims but for fewer than one-half of 1 percent of the workforce. Gas station attendants, sales counter clerks, and police each had a homicide rate of ap-proximately 11 workers per 100,000 over the period studied.19 Estimates indicate that approximately 100 workers each year are murdered while working in con-venience stores.



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