In 2013, out of 900,000 sworn officers, just 100 died from a job-related injury. Thats about 11.1 per 100,000, or a rate of 0.01%. Policing doesnt even make it into the top 10 most dangerous American professions. Logging has a fatality rate 11 times higher, at 127.8 per 100,000. Fishing: 117 per 100,000. Pilot/flight engineer: 53.4 per 100,000. Its twice as dangerous to be a truck driver as a cop—at 22.1 per 100,000. Another point to bear in mind is that not all officer fatalities are homicides. Out of the 100 deaths in 2013, 31 were shot, 11 were struck by a vehicle, 2 were stabbed, and 1 died in a bomb-related incident. Other causes of death were: aircraft accident (1), automobile accident (28), motorcycle accident (4), falling (6), drowning (2), electrocution (1), and job-related illness (13). Even assuming that half these deaths were homicides, policing would have a murder rate of 5.55 per 100,000, comparable to the average murder rate of U.S. cities: 5.6 per 100,000. Its more dangerous to live in Baltimore (35.01 murders per 100,000 residents) than to be a cop in 2014.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:29:59 +0000
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