Byline: Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- President Clinton used a service for slain police Thursday as occasion to press his crime agenda and roll out initiatives promoting gun safety and clamping down on gun sales to foreign visitors.
New statistics show that the 116 officers killed in the line of duty in 1996 were the fewest since 1959, when 95 were killed. By comparison, 162 law enforcement officers were killed in 1995.
Crediting the improvement to better training, beefed-up forces and gun controls that he signed in his first term, Clinton added: ``It has now become a winning cause, and it is our job -- those of us who remain -- to make sure that we …
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