No shootings at all?

From the department of "unlikely, but in a good way:"

"For the first time since 1996, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department went a year without any deputy-involved shootings, it was reported Monday."

I like the role-reversal on this one. It does seem much more likely that, in a city of a few million people, given the usual percent of criminals, that someone would get shot by the authorities. Just not this year. The past few years, 7 to 10 shootings were reported. That's not to say some other department didn't kill anyone, of course, but it's still a jot of good news.

Link: North County Times (Feb 12, 2008)