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Police work would not even make a list as one of the top 10 most dangerous commonly-held jobs.

Also, the grandparent's comment may be true for at least a percentage of the workforce:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/03/police-complaints-drop-93-...

Usually those stats focus on deaths or shootings, which have fallen as crime has decreased and cars have gotten safer.

But, if you look at workplace injury and sickness, police don’t do well. They have higher incidence of heart disease, higher probability of auto accident injury, and other issues. It’s a tough gig.

Heart disease? It'll be hard to pin that one solely on police work, and not on lifestyle choices.

Cops have very high rates of alcoholism. Just because they're not getting shot at doesn't mean they're not dealing with the worst society has to offer.

Discrimination and self-selection also exists among police. They intentionally hire those with low IQs: https://www.google.com/amp/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/court-oks-b...

That is not to say there aren't honorable and amazing police officera who deal with the worst of society; but our policing force has serious problems beyond even the unbelievably awful militarization and race discrimination.

124 is not a "low" IQ.

Shift work, at least, gives you heart disease.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3971766/#s3atit...

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