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by option_greek 1605 days ago
And hire who?

Its not like the job is very appealing in current environment. The risk of either dying on job or getting imprisoned due to domestic disturbance calls gone wrong is very high. Not to mention, a lot of cops not showing up situation seem to be in line with the demands of general public who instead want to mental health workers to show up for handling a variety of scenarios.
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drdeca 1605 days ago
Do other jobs of comparable death rates have higher pay? My understanding is that there are a number of jobs with higher death rates which aren't typically thought of as like, super "in the line of danger" jobs.

Are those stats wrong? or maybe misleading by focusing on the wrong slice of the population? Or something like that?

Or is the compensation for those jobs more than it is for police officers?

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