Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

urgjotonlkec t1_j4msddj wrote

Reply to comment by jayrocksd in America's Deadliest Jobs in 2022 by toso_o

I've seen them on other lists. Being a cop is more dangerous than the average job, but nowhere near being one of the most dangerous. And, as already mentioned, the overwhelming majority of deaths are due to vehicular accidents.

6

jayrocksd t1_j4mwxga wrote

I don't doubt it, but if you exclude accidents, I suspect the fatality rates would look different for other occupations as well. Looking at the BLS data, one quarter of all logging deaths in 2021 were also vehicular accidents.

The FBI statistics seem to indicate that more officers died from felonious assault with a firearm in 2021 (61) than from vehicular accidents (32 in crashes and 20 struck by a vehicle as a pedestrian.)

3

Mendicant__ t1_j4o2imh wrote

If you pull out their rates of assault where they don't die, the job starts sounding a lot more dangerous, even if a lot of those "assaults" are bullshit.

Being a cop is genuinely dangerous, and the fact that it's not in the top ten most fatal jobs doesn't make it safe any more than Scottie Pippen not being one of the top ten greatest basketball players of all time makes him a mediocre player.

1