the police love to lie and say they have a very dangerous jobs and risk their lives fearing that criminals will kill them. here proof that that is a lie. the real stats show that being a cop is about as dangerous as being a truck driver. and cops have about the same chance of dying on the job as a truck driver does. this year in arizona 5 cops died on the job. only one of them was killed by a criminal. the others died in traffic accident, one had a heart attack, and one died thru his own stupidity. Original Article Police groups say 153 officers died in line of duty in '05; 4 were women Associated Press Dec. 24, 2005 12:00 AM WASHINGTON - Two law-enforcement groups said Friday that 153 officers have died in the line of duty so far in 2005, with the majority killed in traffic accidents and shootings. In Arizona, five officers, including a prison worker, have lost their lives this year, one more than in 2004. Included are David Uribe, a Phoenix police officer, who was shot dead May 10 during a traffic stop in north Phoenix, and Ramon Rios, a Douglas police officer, who died of a heart attack Sept. 4 while struggling with three juveniles. The other deaths are Gabriel Saucedo, a corrections officer at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Safford, whose service weapon accidentally discharged June 3; Timothy Graham, a Pima County sheriff's deputy who was struck by a vehicle Aug. 10; and Paul Salmon, a Phoenix police officer who was killed in an automobile crash Nov. 29. The national number, just one below the 154 reported killed in 2004, marks a continued downward trend over the past 30 years, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and Concerns of Police Survivors. The groups compiled the deaths from reports through Thursday. Traffic-related accidents claimed the lives of 62 officers in 2005. The ranks of officers killed in traffic accidents has risen 40 percent in the past 30 years, according to the groups. An additional 60 died in 2005 in shootings, including firearms training accidents. Physical-related incidents, including heart attacks and heat stroke, accounted for 20 more deaths. Other deaths included two fatalities in a helicopter crash, one in a bomb-related incident, one in a stabbing, two in drownings and three in falls. "The increased use of body armor, better training and, more recently, the advent of less-lethal weaponry have all played a role in bringing these numbers down," said Craig W. Floyd, chairman of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Excluding the 234 officers killed in the Sept. 11 attacks, 160 officers have been killed each year on average over the past decade, the groups said. The annual average was 220 through the 1970s. California still had the most officers killed in the line of duty, with 17. Texas, with 14, and Georgia, with 10, followed. Nine federal officers died. Just four of the overall deaths involved women officers. The groups plan to add the 153 names over the next few months to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial lists the names of more than 17,000 officers killed in the line of duty since 1792.