The Car As A Coffin
Artificial intelligence cannot offer exact stats on how many officers are killed while they sit in their patol cars. They estmate each year some 3–8 officers are killed while sitting in patrol cars and perhaps 10–20 shot but surviving in similar situations. Back in the 1970s, the ’80s, and even the ’90s, the phrase “the car as a coffin” was already a warning, a cop training phrase, a “word to the wise” about being stuck in a car and getting killed by an outside shooter. The advice was simple:
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