[biofunsf]

I'm pretty sure police are more likely to be shot than any other occupation. Logging is the most dangerous occupation of all, but I don't think any of them die from bullets. In contrast, police lives are at risk in brief high-stakes incidents that might require them to use a gun, or not use it, to save their own lives. All the other highly dangerous jobs involve pretty different risk models.

But that's why training of police is so important, and we as a society need to hold them to an incredibly high standard. But I think it's silly to tell police they shouldn't be jumpy because their occupation is safer than logging/fishing/piloting/roofing/etc.

[m4jor]

>I'm pretty sure police are more likely to be shot than any other occupation.

I'm pretty sure gangsters and drug dealers are the most likely to be shot than any other occupation in the US as they make up the bulk of firearm deaths after accounting for suicides.

[XorNot]

And you would be wrong. Food service and retail workers are the most likely to be murdered on the job in the US. [1]

[1] https://neuhoffmediaspringfield.com/2021/03/24/study-jobs-yo...

[suddenclarity]

There's no mention of the data being adjusted per capita?

[XorNot]

Well then police officers don't even break no. 2 per capita[1] (they're no. 22)

[1] https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748-top-25-most-dangerous-j...

[varenc]

To your original point, from that link seems like fast food workers don’t even make the top 25 when it’s per capita. The fast food worker stat seems irrelevant but agree there’s many more dangerous occupations than police.

[weaksauce]

> But that's why training of police is so important, and we as a society need to hold them to an incredibly high standard.

I agree they should be trained better and held to a high standard but they simply are not.