More dangerous than those they would protect you from

I forgot to post this yesterday:

In 350 incidents since 1985, officers shot selves or one another nearly as often as they were hit by suspects, records show.

Though the resulting wounds tended to be less serious than in gun battles with suspects, scores of officers and more than two dozen suspects and bystanders have been injured in incidents that department officials blame on careless handling of firearms.

But, but I thought they were the PROFESSIONALS!?

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