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teacherone
12-28-2010, 10:44 AM
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- During the past 12 months, 160 U.S. law enforcement officers died in the line of duty, a 37 percent jump from 2009, data indicate.

The 160 deaths of federal, state and local law enforcement personnel was a dramatic increase over the 117 officials who died last year, a 50-year low, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund said in a release.

Fifty-nine officers were fatally shot during the past year, a 20 percent increase from the 49 killed by gunfire in 2009, the fund said Monday.

"A more brazen, cold-blooded criminal element is on the prowl in America, and they don't think twice about killing a cop," fund Chairman Craig W. Floyd said.

Traffic-related incidents remained the top cause of death among our nation's law enforcement officers for the 13th straight year, the fund said, with 73 officers killed in traffic-related incidents this year, compared to 51 in 2009. Of the 73 deaths, 50 occurred during automobile crashes, 16 officers were struck and killed while outside of their own vehicles, six died in motorcycle crashes and one bike patrol officer was struck by a vehicle.

Nineteen officers died as a result of job-related illnesses, two were beaten, two drowned, two officers suffered fatal falls, two died in aircraft crashes and one officer died in a boating accident, the data indicated.

Texas led in the number of officer deaths with 18, followed by California with 11, Illinois with 10, Florida with nine and Georgia with seven, the fund said.

The two law enforcement agencies reporting the most deaths in 2010 were the California Highway Patrol and the Chicago Police Department, each with five.

Eleven of the officers killed served with federal law enforcement agencies. Six female officers died in 2010, compared to one in 2009.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/12/28/Data-59-officers-fatally-shot-in-2010/UPI-92241293547483/

roho76
12-28-2010, 10:46 AM
They were probably trying to bust someone for smoking pot.

TonySutton
12-28-2010, 10:55 AM
How many unarmed citizens died by police officer during the last year?

Kylie
12-28-2010, 10:58 AM
I'd bet they don't keep a tally of those numbers. It would be staggering though, I'm sure.

pcosmar
12-28-2010, 11:05 AM
So,
Cops can't drive for shit.
How many of the gunshots were self inflicted? (or friendly fire)?

Kludge
12-28-2010, 11:09 AM
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coastie
12-28-2010, 12:30 PM
So,
Cops can't drive for shit.
How many of the gunshots were self inflicted? (or friendly fire)?

SILENCE MUNDANE!!!! The whole issue was boiled down to this truth!!!!

"A more brazen, cold-blooded criminal element is on the prowl in America, and they don't think twice about killing a cop," fund Chairman Craig W. Floyd said.

And sadly, this is all the masses will see, without doing any kind of objective study of the matter. Just a bad year, nothing more, nothing less.

coastie
12-28-2010, 12:37 PM
So lets see here....

According to http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/police/ there are a little under 710,000 cops in the US....160 deaths? Sounds like a pretty safe job to me.

pcosmar
12-28-2010, 12:37 PM
Statistics. :rolleyes:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ABCiPJRCyA

How many farmers lost their lives on the job?

Or Miners, Or Loggers.

Or any of the MORE dangerous professions.
:(

coastie
12-28-2010, 12:42 PM
Statistics. :rolleyes:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ABCiPJRCyA

How many farmers lost their lives on the job?

Or Miners, Or Loggers.

Or any of the MORE dangerous professions.
:(

That video is a classic. Some stats for ya:

Loggers Fatalities: 116 per 100,000 workers

Farmers Fatalities: 40 per 100,000 workers

Miners Fatalities: 22 per 100,000 workers

Sanitation Workers Fatalities: 37 per 100,000 workers

Airline Pilots Fatalities: 72 per 100,000 workers

Cops Fatalities: 16 per 100,000 workers

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/1500/1/?redirectURL=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-08/the-20-most-dangerous-jobs/

Brooklyn Red Leg
12-28-2010, 03:16 PM
Can't gather up much in the way of sympathy any more for police 'killed in the line of duty'. I don't wish for anyone to die, but I'm personally sick to death of all the gnashing of teeth over parasites who have consistently made this country worse.

Humanae Libertas
12-28-2010, 06:53 PM
How many unarmed citizens died by police officer during the last year?



Probably close to a thousand or more.

coastie
12-28-2010, 07:39 PM
How many unarmed citizens died by police officer during the last year?

Impossible to really know, I mean, how exactly is that reported? It's bad enough we hear of people outright murdered by them, and then the coroner says the person had a heart attack or some other ridiculous shit.:mad: