Looking for a Reference to a Statistic

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    MDHunter

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    Mar 12, 2007
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    hey guys and gals, need help finding a number! During discussions on the pros/cons around CCW, I have often seen people cite a statistic that approximately 11% of LEO shootings result in accidental wounding of bystander, while about 2% of CCW shootings result in innocent woundings. Not bashing LEOs in any way, just wanting to find the reference for this statistic, to support a CCW discussion. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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    Michael
     
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    "Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck, using surveys and other data, has determined that armed citizens defend their lives or property with firearms against criminals approximately 1 million times a year. In 98 percent of these instances, the citizen merely brandishes the weapon or fires a warning shot. Only in 2 percent of the cases do citizens actually shoot their assailants. In defending themselves with their firearms, armed citizens kill 2,000 to 3,000 criminals each year, three times the number killed by the police. A nationwide study by Don Kates, the constitutional lawyer and criminologist, found that only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The 'error rate' for the police, however, was 11 percent, more than five times as high."
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    http://www.newsweek.com/id/124951/page/3
     
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