What are the statistics on police officers that lose their lives, on a yearly basis?

Answer 1

To date in 2007, 157 Law Enforcement Officers have been killed in the line of duty.

The statistics for the last 10 years are as follows:
2006 - 147
2005 - 159
2004 - 162
2003 - 147
2002 - 159
2001 - 242
2000 - 163
1999 - 151
1998 - 175
1997 - 176

Source - the Officer Down Memorial Page
http://www.odmp.org/index.php

Answer 2

If you want a closer look at the statistics try
http://www.fbi.gov/research.htm
this is the FBI research page. Each years crime report includes officer killed/injured statistics along with excellent descriptive information regarding the types of incidents.

Answer 3

Professions and occupations

Police or public safety officers are at risk for suicide. The hours of work, the scenes they witness daily, the availability of guns, and the silence encouraged by the profession (keeping within the "wall-of-blue"), as well as alcohol usage and divorces contribute to this risk.



http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic3004.htm



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Someones statistics might be a little amiss
(Always consider the source of the stats!)

***ON THE JOB***
New York (CNN/Money) - On December 3, 2002, a section of a felled tree struck and killed an 18-year-old logger. He was one of the last of 104 lumbermen to die in 2002, when timber cutters led the nation with the highest on-the-job mortality rate of any vocation.

The mortality rate among lumbermen, 118 timber cutters per 100,000 workers, heads the list of the top 10 most dangerous jobs in America for 2002 put out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and was more than 26 times that of the average U.S. worker.


The fishing industry ran second with 71 fatalities per 100,000 workers, with drowning the most common cause of death.

The crab fishery in Alaska is particularly perilous, according to University of Alaska economist Gunnar Knapp. "The environment in which the crabbing is done, in the Bering Sea, in winter, has to be some of the worst conditions on Earth. You're hundreds of miles from port, in stormy seas, with ice forming all over, sometimes so thick it capsizes the boat."

Fishermen also sustain injuries from working with heavy gear and mighty machinery. Alaskan crabbers use huge cages as traps. "Imagine," say Knapp, "steel lobster pots, only ten times the size, hundreds of pounds apiece."

http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/13/pf/dangerousjobs/


I am not including suicides or death by Donut related causes...

Oh and the 10 most dangerous are:
1. Timber cutters and loggers
2. Fishers and crabbers
3. Commercial pilots
4. Construction workers/Ironworkers
5. Refuse collectors
6. Farmers and ranchers
7. Roofers
8. Electrical power-line installers
9. Drivers transporting goods and livestock
10. Cab drivers and chauffeurs

Oh lookie.....The people that actually contribute to the society!!!!!!
Booo Yaaa!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

that is such a dangerous job my brother is a cop since 1995 and he has been shot 3 times.

Answer 5

I think CGIV76 has it right on the money.

Too bad some hater has to post in here.
Quit yer hatin'!