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To: TimF who wrote (124610)	2/12/2004 7:08:02 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi twfowler; Re: "I get a similar large number when I multiply the number of people killed per cop by the entire population of the US, but that calculation like yours does not have any real point behind it." If you'd made the calculation, then why aren't you showing us the numbers? Here, let me work them out for you, LOL: Iraq war: 160,000 US troops killed 10,000 Iraqis over a period of 10 months. Kill rate: 1/160 per month. New York police force: 38,000 officers shoots about 24 people dead on the streets and has about another 12 people "die in custody" per year. That gives a kill rate of 1/12000 per month. In other words, our soldiers kill about 72x as many people, per capita, as the NYPD. The numbers are not even comparable. Furthermore, most of those soldiers never chose police work as a profession. They were not trained for it, and the psychological toll must be horrific. -- Carl P.S. Links: hrw.org A study by an NYPD task force in 1994 reported that 55 people had died in police custody between January 1990 and the end of April 1994 ... amnestyusa.org The number of people shot fatally fell from an average of 63 a year from 1970-1974 to 24 a year from 1979 to 1988 (reaching an all-time low of 14 in 1987), with a corresponding decline in the number of shots fired and civilians injured. amnestyusa.org