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Not even the most dangerous job in the US. Forest workers, commercial fishermen, pilots etc are more dangerous. If we're talking about gun violence, your corn
by adrr 7mo ago
Not even the most dangerous job in the US. Forest workers, commercial fishermen, pilots etc are more dangerous. If we're talking about gun violence, your corner market cashier is more likely to get shot, Has anyone thanked a 7 eleven worker for their sacrifice thas you can get a slurpee at 2am?
- RajT88 7mo agoI have seen some shit go down in 7/11's at 1am. You are not kidding.
- cool_dude85 7mo agoProbably the most dangerous aspect of the job in the US is driving.
- ceejayoz 7mo agoFor a bit, it was COVID. https://abcnews.com/Health/covid-leading-cause-law-enforcement-deaths-2022-3rd/story?id=96363324 https://abcnews.com/Health/covid-leading-cause-law-enforceme...
- tokai 7mo agoIts more dangerous being a spouse to a cop than it is to be a cop.
- shagmin 7mo agoCurious how much this varies among police. Some jobs are by their nature always dangerous. But there are a lot of cops in the USA, and plenty I'm sure have nice, cozy jobs, and then there are some who spend thee majority of their career policing areas that more closely resemble warzones or 3rd world nations but this isn't the majority by any means.
- PaulDavisThe1st 7mo agoRoofing, I think, tends to be the most dangerous.
- mywittyname 7mo agoDepends on how you look at the numbers. But construction, logging, garbage collection and truck driving tend to be the most deadly depending on the specific metric (absolute, per capita, by industry, etc). Expanding that, the deadliest part of being a police officer is almost certainly the driving component. No gun will save you from smashing your SUV into a pole. And the aftermarket modifications made to the vehicles aren't crash tested. A police cruiser is full of potential projectiles.
- adrr 7mo agoDepends how you define dangerous. If we look injury rates and not deaths, meat processing/packing is the most dangerous.
- vostrocity 7mo agoNeither working as a 7 eleven worker nor a cop is a sacrifice, it's a free labor market.
- ToValueFunfetti 7mo agoI don't think you can use this datapoint for this purpose. Cops are employing the paranoid strategies already, so there's no way to discern between 'these strategies are needless' and 'these strategies are effective'.
- maxerickson 7mo agoYou could probably do a comparison between jurisdictions where police homicides are common and jurisdictions where they aren't common. Assuming that there are cultural factors anyway. Like sure, areas with higher rates of criminal violence will probably have more police homicides, but it's likely enough that you can pair things up based on rates of criminal violence.