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loggers: 135.9 annual deaths per 100k

fishermen: 86.0 annual deaths per 100k

pilots: 55.5 annual deaths per 100k

pizza delivery: 24.7 annual deaths per 100k

police: 14.6 annual deaths per 100k

Also more dangerous than being a cop: roofers, garbage collectors, iron and steel workers, truck drivers, farmers/agricultural, construction/extraction, grounds maintenance, mechanics/installers/repairers.

That's objectively not true, in all rankings of things such as total deaths, fatal injury per 100k workers etc police officers as a whole don't even breach the top 20. #1 is logging, and #2 is aircraft pilot / engineer. You need to realign with the reality of the job.

That’s not true at all, especially in countries outside the USA.

There’s a lot of fetishised, institutionalised propaganda out there regarding the noble policeman, putting themselves in supreme danger every day to hold back the tides of evil that threaten to destroy society.

Reality is quite different