Two police officers get shot at in one week.

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Hey Raider, although you've lost your opportunity HERE. I really think you should stay talkin to someone about this, maybe a counselor. Sounds like you need a hug. Good luck, and dont kill anybody.

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this is very sad but........third time's a charm

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Slain deputy is third shot in 10 days in Florida

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BRANDON, Fla. (AP) -- The Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy killed early Wednesday became the third Florida deputy to be shot in a 10-day span, a rare spate of gun violence involving officers that advocates say underscores the job's high risks.

More U.S. police officers were killed while on duty in the first six months of 2007 -- 101 -- than during any such period since 1978, according to the National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund, which tracks the numbers. That included 39 who were fatally shot -- up from 27 during the same period last year -- and 45 who died in traffic accidents.

"It's the most dangerous profession in America," said Craig W. Floyd, chairman of the Washington-based group. "You never know when the odds are going catch up with you."

Floyd, who learned of Sgt. Ron Harrison's slaying when it was announced at a National Fraternal Order of Police conference in Louisville, Ky., Wednesday morning, said he can't remember three officers shot in the same state in separate incidents in such a short span.

Harrison, 55 and a 20-year veteran deputy, was fatally shot in his car shortly after leaving a drunken driving checkpoint he was manning in this community east of Tampa. The suspected shooter barricaded himself in a house nearby and was fatally shot later by SWAT team officers.

Harrison's slaying came on the heels of Friday's fatal shooting of Broward County sheriff's Sgt. Chris Reyka, 51, 200 miles away in Pompano Beach. Reyka, whose funeral was Wednesday, was looking for stolen vehicles behind a drug store when someone got out of a white car and fired at least five shots at him. His killer is still being sought.

On Aug. 6 in the same South Florida county, off-duty Broward County deputy Maury Hernandez was shot in the head after he pulled over a motorcyclist who had run several red lights. The suspect was arrested moments later at a nearby condominium. Hernandez, 28, remains hospitalized in critical condition.

Floyd called this year's 44 percent increase in fatal police shootings across the country "alarming." The reasons aren't immediately clear, he said, but the numbers are edging up as the violent crime rate rises.

The 101 killed during the first six months of this year compares with 145 officers killed nationally in all of 2006, including nine in Florida. That includes 52 who were shot, 45 who died in traffic crashes, 15 struck by a vehicle and 14 who died from job-related illnesses.

One in 6,000 officers dies in the line of duty every year, Floyd said.

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist called the recent spate of shootings in his state "very sad."

"These people who work in law enforcement -- as well as firefighters -- these first responders put their lives on the line each and every day and it breaks my heart whenever any of them lose their lives," Crist said during a visit to Orlando on Wednesday. "We can never thank them enough and my heart and prayers go out to the family."

Many questions remain in Harrison's slaying.

A witness reported she was driving alongside Harrison's car at about 1 a.m. when she heard shots fired, Sheriff David Gee said. The woman said Harrison's car clipped her vehicle as it passed by with its lights on, then crossed the road and struck a tree.

Harrison, shot in the upper torso, was pronounced dead at a hospital.

"It's unclear if the shooter was in a vehicle or if he ambushed the deputy from the roadside," Gee said.

Around that time, authorities received a call from another woman who said her boyfriend told her that he had been in a shooting with a police officer, and provided his address, Gee said.

Deputies who found the man barricaded in the house determined that he had been involved in Harrison's shooting, Gee said. He was later identified as Michael Allen Phillips, 24.

The man fired from a window twice during the standoff, hitting a deputy's vehicle and another vehicle outside the house, the sheriff's office said. SWAT members shot him through the window.

"The law enforcement community is a very close-knit profession, whether local, state or federal," said Lance Newman, special agent in charge of the Tampa office of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. "When there is a loss in our family, we are all impacted by the senseless death of one of our own. This goes to remind people that law enforcement officers put their lives on the line each and every day to protect our community."