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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:
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> Police officers killed in the line of duty
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> 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
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