Police officers, security guards and taxicab drivers were by far the most likely workers to be attacked or threatened with violence on the job in the mid-1990s, the Justice Department reported Sunday.
While workplace violence touched about 1.7 million Americans in 1996, the most recent year studied, the number of such victims dropped by more than one-fifth over the preceding years, mirroring an overall decline in crime in America.Three of every five assailants was a stranger to the victim, and intimate relatives and friends were far less involved in workplace violence than in overall attacks.