Coincidence?

Texas leads the nation in police officers killed in the line of duty in 2007 (roughly one every sixteen days).

Texas leads the nation in executions with 60% of the total executions in 2007 (averaging one every two weeks).

While the news is blaring the "more officers died in the line of duty in 2007" factoid, take a look at the statistics in the news article. Physical causes, including heart attacks, count for 18 deaths. (Heart attacks?)

More questionable is that five Air Force cops were killed in a bombing in Iraq and they are counted. They were killed in a combat zone just like any other soldier. Counting them as "police line of duty deaths" makes me wonder if the flexible accountants in Fort Fumble didn't count them as being killed in combat in Iraq.