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Comment by beat

11 years ago

Do you think it would really move the needle that much? And for that matter, there are numerous other jobs more dangerous than being a police officer.

The point being that being a police officer isn't as dangerous as many other professions that aren't considered dangerous.

I think statistic lie if you consider a police officer in Detroit or Chicago having the same risk as a police officer in rural Oklahoma. I do believe the statistics would be drastically different for those two groups, and until we have honest statistics, I don't see how we can come up with any conclusion one way or the other. (Unless you're a cop of course, and can speak based on experience, but let's face it, most of us are a bunch of nerds using our elite Googling to verify and prove our version of the world)