[codecutter]

It is still riskier job than a cashier or software developer. OP's comment about police compensation is irrelevant, IMO.

Talking about risk, would you play a Russian roulette for $100? If you win, you will make $100 in less than a minute, far better hourly pay-rate than a police officer or a pilot.

[throwaway2048]

But not a riskier job, than say a delivery driver, I doubt you hold them in the same esteem.

[austincheney]

Risk is determined by actuaries. I say let the money do that talking.

[lenkite]

You mean let the police be privately funded ? Well, the rich can then rest in peace.

[austincheney]

Police departments have insurance.

[athms]

Farm work is more dangerous than being a cop, and the federal government lets children younger than twelve work on a farm unless a state sets its own rules. Age, hour, overtime and minimum wage provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act that protect young workers in other fields don't apply. Seventeen states have exempted farm work from most or all their child labor laws: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and Wyoming.