Former cop reviews risk management with local police, responders

Gordon Graham speaks to local police and other first responders last week in Lewiston.

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Story Published: Jul 24, 2008 at 4:00 PM PST

Story Updated: Nov 20, 2008 at 10:12 PM PST

By Stephanie Smith

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LEWISTON - Local law enforcement and fire officials heard from an inspirational risk management speaker in a training session last week.

Gordon Graham spoke to agencies from all over the region.

"You feel safer driving at night in the rain over a mountain pass than you feel on a commercial airline?" asked Graham. "Statistically he is about a thousand times more safe on that airplane than he is ever going to be on a two lane road going over a mountain. People don't get what's risky.

Graham is an author, lawyer and a former police officer

"Doctors around America are killing 100,000 people a year with medical malpractice," he said. "18,800 law enforcement agencies, over 1 million cops, we kill about 650 people a year. You want the rest of the story? 80 percent of the people we kill - they needed to die right now. 20 percent? Eh?"

Graham used humor to talk about risk to the people who deal with it everyday.

"Your average American doesn't know they are safer dealing with a psycho cop at midnight than they are coming into your doctor's office. Respect risk."

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