One Oregon police chief was killed when a man allegedly took the officer’s gun and shot him in the head. A policeman in Arizona was fatally shot when he went to a suburban Phoenix apartment complex to help a probation officer. And two South Dakota officers were killed in a shootout after a traffic stop.
The number of fatalities from departments across the country caused by firearms made 2011 one of the deadliest years in recent history for U.S. law enforcement.
Across the nation, 173 officers died in the line of duty, up 13 percent from 153 the year before, according to numbers as of Wednesday compiled by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
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You were expecting something else? … in such a thoroughly down economy?
I wonder how many of them were killed by peaceful drug addicts or by the people the peaceful drug addicts buy their peaceful drugs from?
Toby, my guess is dope had a lot to do with it. Usually does.