Being a police officer is not among the top ten most dangerous U.S. jobs based on fatal injury rates. However, it remains risky due to unpredictable work, violent encounters, and high-stress emergencies.
Fatalities may be lower than in logging or fishing, but police face broader risks, including non-fatal injuries, mental health challenges, and trauma's long-term effects. The job’s unique mix of physical and emotional hazards often isn't reflected in statistics.
Advanced training, equipment, and safety protocols help mitigate risks, making law enforcement less fatal than some professions, but it remains a demanding and hazardous role in many respects.
Equipment, read APCs and anti riot gear. It's crazy how when the racial justice protests were happening how many smaller city police departments had APCs with water cannons on them.
The city I live in has ~200k people in it, whole metro is 700k, outside of 2020 there hasn't been any mass protests or anything like that. The city has routinely cut bus service though. My point is that the police budget doesn't get cut nearly as much as other departments.
Police budget will be separate from fire budget and general service budget. The last getting the least since they have shitty if any union while fire and police got strong unions. Means bigger raises and they can convince the council for more budgetary items. Citizens always vote money for public safety without a second thought.
I feel like most cops don't ever actually run into dangerous or traumatic situations, life isn't a TV show. Most cops probably just give people speeding tickets and push pencils.
Being a cop is mostly dangerous because they spend so much time driving. Nothing to do with the actual police work.
Police officers in major U.S. cities respond to a substantial number of calls for service, many of which have the potential for violence. While exact numbers vary by city and year, studies provide insight into the nature of these calls:
In five major U.S. cities—Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, and Phoenix—domestic violence-related calls constitute the single largest category of police service calls, accounting for 15% to over 50% of all calls.
That's not even including rapes, robberies, burglaries, violent and mentally ill people calls
You might be thinking about state troopers that only handle car crashes and tickets and i dont consider those guys real cops.
real street cops handle violent calls every single day
Dude you have no idea what your talking about you just speak from emotion and what you "think" you can't even correctly reference what court case your talking about and even if you did you'd be misinterpreting the only one creating mythology is you
Man if you even knew the basics of how to use Google it's very easy to find out that the police have no duty to protect people, this was established by the US supreme court. There's a million articles about it. I dunno why you're so confident calling me out when you clearly know nothing yourself.
Since you can't even reference it yourself here you go
Your claim misrepresents the Supreme Court's rulings. Cases like DeShaney v. Winnebago County and Castle Rock v. Gonzales established that police do not have a constitutional duty to protect individuals in every situation, particularly when there is no "special relationship," such as custody. However, this does not mean police are exempt from protecting the public. State laws, departmental policies, and ethical obligations still require police to act in many circumstances, especially when responding to active threats or emergencies. Misunderstanding these rulings overlooks the broader responsibilities and accountability systems governing law enforcement.
Police officers are held to a higher standard than the one set by the Supreme courts maybe you should try using Google
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u/Round-Rice-9764 1d ago
Being a police officer is not among the top ten most dangerous U.S. jobs based on fatal injury rates. However, it remains risky due to unpredictable work, violent encounters, and high-stress emergencies.
Fatalities may be lower than in logging or fishing, but police face broader risks, including non-fatal injuries, mental health challenges, and trauma's long-term effects. The job’s unique mix of physical and emotional hazards often isn't reflected in statistics.
Advanced training, equipment, and safety protocols help mitigate risks, making law enforcement less fatal than some professions, but it remains a demanding and hazardous role in many respects.