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Originally Posted by PammyJ
Just a few days ago a deputy was shot three times and survived. Last year Brevard county was mourning the death of a female officer who was shot and killed during a traffic stop. I remember one year there were about 5 officers killed in separate incidences in central Florida. My own brother-in-law was a police officer killed in the line of duty.There are many more who were shot, it happens more than you think!
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I'm sorry to hear about your brother in law, Pam. My father was a police officer for twenty-five years in the city where I grew up. He was never shot at.
In the past fifty years in that city, there was one officer that was shot and killed and it was primarily because of his own stupidity. He was in plain clothes and was going by a bar where something looked suspicious. He looked inside and saw a robbery in progress. Instead of calling for backup and waiting for more help to arrive, he burst into the room with his gun out and yelled "police". One of the armed robbers shot him.
It seems that the rate of officers shot and killed in central Florida is pretty high.
I still maintain that it is a pretty rare event. But you could be right.