by Newfie » Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:28:10
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_poli ... ted_states$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')ow many police officers are employed in the United states?
Answer:
There are as of 2006, 683,396 full time state, city, university and college, metropolitan and non-metropolitan county, and other law enforcement officers in the United States. There are approx. 120,000 full time law enforcement personnel working for the federal government adding up to a total number of 800,000 law enforcement personnel in the U.S.
Nearly all of them are gun owners themselves. If things were truly to go that far South, that we were shooting the police, then I suspect that many police would either quit (not show up) or otherwise turn to the more heavily armed side. Hell, they want to live too.
I don't feel much threat from this kind of thing occurring, at the moment. I think we are far, far away from that.
In the late '60's and early '70's there was much more widespread and open talk of rebellion. And with many vets coming home from Nam, and the racial issues, and the drugs, it was a pretty explosive time. Yet we got through that with very little overall disturbance, even though it seemed worse at the time.
I just don't see this incident becoming much of anything. Let's hope.