Not to disagree with what you've said below, but a more complete account of the
data will show that there is a high corelation between police killings of
civilians and civilian killings of police.  In other words, as police kill more
civilians, more civilians kill police and vice versa.

One picky point that has bothered me on this thread is the reference to .001
percent.  Actually, 1 execution of  every (approximately) thousand criminal
homicides constitutes .1 of a percent, for which the corresponding proportion
would be .001.  Peace.  Dan

"Issodhos @aol.com" wrote:

> In a message dated 5/11/00 11:25:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > Hey, they cook the books Issodros and abstracted statistics of a ceremonial
> >  nature tell no story. One hundred informal executions in my recent memory
> >  and in my local area.
>
>     Well, your comments would be of use if we were discussing the possible
> wrongful shooting of people by the police, but they are irrelevant to the
> topic of capital punishment within the judicial system and how difficult it
> is to receive such a sentence.  Anyway, here is a statistic that may interest
> you.  While only 499 murderers were executed during this period, 1,820 cops
> were "informally executed" in the line of duty.
>
> Police officers killed in the line of duty
>
>     1976      111
>     1977       93
>     1978       93
>     1979      106
>     1980      104
>     1981       91
>     1982       92
>     1983       80
>     1984       72
>     1985       78
>     1986       66
>     1987       74
>     1988       78
>     1989       66
>     1990       66
>     1991       71
>     1992       64
>     1993       70
>     1994       79
>     1995       74
>     1996       61
>     1997       70
>     1998       61
>  Yours,
> Issodhos