As it states later on in the test after surveying thirteen years of evidence, the deterrence aspect of the death penalty did not seem to be apparent. The police were not protected from being a homicide victim even though capital punishment was on their side supposedly protecting them. (Bailey, Peterson) According to statistics gathered from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the areas of the country that had a lower enforcement of capital punishment was actually a place where they police force was safer than in the regions where the capital punishment was heavily enforced.(Death Penalty In Focus) For instance, the number of murders of an official officer in the southern states between the years of 1989 and 1998 was an alarming two hundred and ninety-two total. On average that means that 29.2 police officers were killed each year, and this is in a region where the death penalty is heavily enforced. (Death Penalty in Focus, Table 1.1) On the other side of the pole, the states in the Northeast region were as little as eighty murders in the same time span. These statistics definitely contradict the stated reason for even having the death penalty.