Fun_People Archive
11 Apr
Interesting Statistics

Date: Tue, 11 Apr 95 01:15:54 PDT
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: Interesting Statistics

[Either Police magazine has a funny idea of timeliness, or the NYPD has been
hiring psychics again.  In any case, it IS interesting... -psl]

Forwarded-by: Ben Norton <norton@halcyon.com>

The following is a table published in the March 1995 issue of Police magazine.
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                           "Bulls" Eye

Here's a look at every bullet fired last year by New York City cops, as
reported in the police department's 1993 Firearms Discharge Assault Report:

TARGETS                                 SHOTS FIRED        HITS
At perpetrators                             928             173
At dogs                                     155             111
Accidental discharges                        43              17
To protect other officer                     18              10
Police officer intoxicated                   10               0
Suicide                                       8               8
Into locker                                   6               0
At vehicle                                    5               0
At girlfriend                                 3               3
Attempting suicide                            3               2
Threatening suicide                           1               0
At wife                                       1               1
At beer can                                   1               0

© 1995 Peter Langston