LAW AND ORDER IN MISSOURI.

Although the number of law officers killed last year was the lowest since 1965, and nationally there's been a decline in the numbers ever since the 1970s, the St. Louis Post Dispatch points to an unhappy anomaly in Missouri: There was not a single year between 1960 and 1999 where there were no police fatalities. The state's enforcement fatalities were slightly higher in the 1990s than in the previous...