Ever since the rash of shootings of unarmed people--and let us not forget the public strangulation of a man for selling loosies, a rare death penalty for white collar crime---there has been complaint that the killings of police are more frequent and do not get equal concern.

I am not convinced that the killing of police is more frequent than the deaths of unarmed people at the hands of police. Here are the 2014 numbers of police on duty deaths:

Assault: 2
Automobile accident: 25
Drowned: 1
Fire: 1
Gunfire: 46
Gunfire (Accidental): 2
Heart attack: 15
Motorcycle accident: 3
Struck by vehicle: 3
Vehicle pursuit: 5
Vehicular assault: 10

Have the police shot more than 46 unarmed people nationwide to date? I don't know but I can't dismiss the possibility out of hand. The reason I don’t know is that, as a nation, we don’t count how many unarmed people are killed by police.