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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And at any rate, while police work is dangerous, it isn't among the 25 most dangerous jobs in America; roofers face far more danger every day, based on injury and fatality statistics.[/quote]

Uninformed anti-cop DCUM posters keep pushing this nonsense.

1. More law enforcement officers died in the line of duty(157) than roofers(134) in 2023(last full year of data).
2. There were 83,016 law enforcement officers assaulted in 2023. I can’t find assault figures for roofers.
3. Roofers get hurt tripping and falling off a roof. Law enforcement gets attacked by people, maybe even roofers.
4 The average injuries per year for roofers hovers around 7,000.
5. I couldn’t find any reports of roofers being shot by homeowners.
6. In 2023 there were 501 officers assaulted and injured by firearms(a 10 year high).[/quote]

None of those statistics mean that being a police officer is more dangerous than being a roofer. There are a lot more cops in America than roofers, so the fact that more police officers were (however terribly) killed on the job than roofers doesn't affect the odds of being killed or injured in either line of work. It's true that the way police officers are hurt or killed on the job is usually more violent than the way roofers are, but that also doesn't make it inherently more dangerous.

Anyway, police officers deserve all of our thanks for putting themselves in the line of however much danger they face. But they then shouldn't also shrug off crime and say citizens asked for it. As the officer in OP's post here apparently did. [/quote]

But being a police officer is exponentially more dangerous than any job, besides other first responders and maybe airline crew.  An attorney is usually not going to get a gunshot or knife wound sitting at their desk typing briefs. It's a very real risk for law enforcement officers.[/quote]

+1.  There is a reason they wear body armor to work every day.  [/quote]

Teachers wear body armor nowadays.  [/quote]

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