This is a misleading point. Assaulting an officer ranges from an elbow to the rib during an arrest to beating the crap out of them. We have roughly 900,000 pol

This is a misleading point. Assaulting an officer ranges from an elbow to the rib during an arrest to beating the crap out of them. We have roughly 900,000 police officers. A total of 135 police officers were killed in duty in 2016.[0] And 14,453 injuries. We point these people towards danger daily and in a single year only 1 in every 62 of those officers will be 'injured'. I would say that's an acceptable risk for the job if the alternative is the circumvention of due process. [0] - http://time.com/4619689/police-officers-killed-2016/ http://time.com/4619689/police-officers-killed-2016/