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Originally Posted by Cochise
Can't remember a single one. Certainly this is not a regular occurrence.
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Originally Posted by Mennonite
There were several instances of this happening when I was growing up. I think it's one of the reasons why they are required to have orange tips now. i may be wrong about that.
I do remember an incident a few years ago where a cop shot an actor at a costume party who had a rubber gun.
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http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/tg-icep.pdf
This report is from 1990. (Pages 30 and 31) They looked at a 5 year period and found about 5 incidents per month where police used force as a result of mistaking a toy gun for a real gun.