See post #34.
What is your goal, here?
My goal is to clear away the overblow rhetoric that always flies out when the police are criticized. Police getting killed in the line of duty is a rare occurrence. Police work usually doesn’t make it into the top ten of dangerous professions although it came in at #9 in 2010 with a total of 133 fatalities nationwide most of which were traffic related. For someone to have known more than one officer who died in the line of duty is stretching the odds even if you look over a long period of time. Truck drivers, garbage men, roofers, commercial fishermen, etc. all have much more dangerous jobs. I’ve known a fair collection of the aforementioned over the years, including police, and the only one in all of the categories I knew who died on the job was a construction worker who fell backwards off a stepladder and hit his head.