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From: PA146008@utkvm1.utk.edu (David Veal)
Subject: Re: My Gun is like my American Express Card
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 02:25:00 GMT

In article <1qiebiINN1c1@cae.cad.gatech.edu> vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox) writes:
>In <93104.173826U28037@uicvm.uic.edu> Jason Kratz <U28037@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>[deleted]
>>The University cops here (who are
>>are state cops) are armed better than the Chicago police.  It seems most
>>state cops are.  I don't know where you are originally from David but you live
>>in Tennesse and I live in Chicago and see this crap everyday on the news
>>and in the papers.  I think the situation is just a tad different here
>>than there.
>
>Which crap, the ridiculous assertions that Uzis are mowing down cops
>right and left? The assertions that dialing 911 should be the proper
>and only option available to the law-abiding citizens?
>
>A factoid:
>
>56 cops were killed in the whole country last year. This is down from
>around 100 in the early '80s. Wow, a real explosion in cop killings
>there eh?  :-)

        Well, if we're going to discuss being a police officer in
America today.       

        The FBI lists 132 police officers killed (feloniously and
accidentally) in 1990.  That's apparently everybody at all levels.

Year        Officers killed       Rate/100,000 police officers
1982             164*                  47.6
1983             152**                 40.2
1984             147                   39.4
1985             148***                37.9
1986             133                   34.9
1987             148                   39.0
1988             155****               41.9
1989             145*****              38.1
1990             132                   32.0


* Includes one officer in Mariana Islands
** Includes one officer each in Guam and Mariana Islands
*** Includes one officer in Guam and two in foreign locations
**** Includes one officer in American Samoas and two in foreign countries
***** Includes one officer in Guam and one Federal officer killed in
Peru


       God, I love the information age!  :-) 

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