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A Patrol officer I knew said once "I never unbuckled a dead man"
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
A Patrol officer I knew said once "I never unbuckled a dead man"
- koheripbal 4y agoIt's a nice zinger, but obviously false.
- robotresearcher 4y agoThe quote is not "No one ever unbuckled a dead man".
- bee_rider 4y agoThere were around 42k traffic deaths in 2021 (a 16 year high apparently) and around 610k patrol officers https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/early-estimate-2021-traffic-fatalities https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/early-estimate-2021-tra... https://www.statista.com/statistics/751015/number-of-police-officers-in-the-us-by-industry/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/751015/number-of-police-... So, assuming every fatality is wearing a seat belt and is handled by a cop ('optimistic' assumption for it to be 'obviously false'), it would still be around a 7% chance per year for a cop to "unbuckle a dead man." So this isn't obviously false, depending on the career length. For example, after 10 years, assuming independent probability of such an encounter per year, .93^10 ~= .48.
- unsupp0rted 4y agoThey unbuckled plenty of people who'll never walk/turn their heads/poop normally without chronic pain again though. Cutting fatalities by 50% is a good start, but the other 50% aren't walking away from car accidents trouble-free, with or without seatbelts in play.