Agreed, but this is the same argument you can make about police deaths. And it does say something about danger in an absolute sense (threat of death, at least).

Agreed, but this is the same argument you can make about police deaths. And it does say something about danger in an absolute sense (threat of death, at least). The threat of death is much higher to the person being engaged by police. Is that because of training, greater reliance on lethality, etc.? Agreed that this data isn't enough to substantiate an opinion. It's also unrelated to _perceived_ danger, which is arguably what the causal factor would be anyways. Only providing counter fodder to the appeal to police deaths as being indicative of danger of the job. If that's all we're going on, its more dangerous to be someone talking to the police.