[Roots]

Simply because there are more innocents killed by cops than cops killed criminals. The fact is that you are more likely, as a law abiding citizen to have a loaded gun pointed at you by a police officer than by a criminal. Think about it...

By this logic, America would be better off without a police force than with one... oh but wait, perhaps New Orleans is a prime example of how without a police force, everybody has a loaded gun pointed at you. Your statistic only supports the fact that police officers are doing their jobs... if that many private citizens aren't shooting people, obviously somebody's keeping America in line.

By the way, nothing in this post supports the crookedness of the very few cops who really do give a bad rep for the police force. You don't assume that your postman/woman carries an assult rifle on them b/c a few lunatic gives a whole new meaning to "going postal", now would you? Get off your "anti-cop" fix, you're being completely naive and irrational.

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"Your statistic only supports the fact that police officers are doing their jobs... if that many private citizens aren't shooting people, obviously somebody's keeping America in line"

And I guess you think that people would go around shooting people. Well, in my RED state, they wouldn't We don't need to be kept "in line". (can't speak for your blue state)

Indivials, at least from my observation, are almost always good. Most of the bad ones usualy hang out together. It't not the police's job, according to the USSC, to protect us in any event.