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That figure does not even place law enforcement in the top ten most dangerous professions.
by thrownaway2424 12y ago
That figure does not even place law enforcement in the top ten most dangerous professions.
- sybhn 12y agoNor it should? I wouldn't want policemen to have the same death on the job as say loggers, if only because you don't want policemen to be reckless/desperate by nature. Anyway, my observation was that ratio it isn't usually expose in pieces I read from other sources :)
- thrownaway2424 12y agoSure. Any statement like that has to be read based on the averages, though. 4.7 per 100k Americans are intentionally murdered every year, and there's about 780k police officers, so you'd expect just from that background number ~37 homicides of cops every year.
- hiou 12y agoAutomobile accidents, are by far the most lethal part of US life outside of disease. This is no different for police officers.
- thrownaway2424 12y agoI'm always saying that the best thing the police can do is get out of their cars. If it makes them safer, even better.