[superkuh]

Pizza delivery drivers face about twice as much risk of on the job injuries via violence when compared to cops. Also twice as much risk of fatal injuries. This mythos the US has with cops does not match reality.

[luma]

Police aren't in the top 10 of most dangerous professions in the USA[1], and when they are injured, it's overwhelmingly the result of traffic accidents.

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.t03.htm

[triceratops]

I've heard this statistic too but do you have a better source? The one you provided only has total injuries, not per 1000 or per capita.

[luma]

Here's a chart of the top 10 professions per 100,000 FTE (basically, per capita): https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-inju...

[triceratops]

Thanks!