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Originally Posted by Rags123
IF you read the link, you would find it was out of fear that they are overlooking some things...
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I read the link. Do you think that the risk to life of police is so great that this fear is justified? If they are so afraid that they can't function how do the soldiers ever function in any war where the risk of casualty is so much greater? How do doctors function in Western Africa? How do lumberjacks ever work up the courage to do their jobs?
America's 10 Deadliest Jobs - Forbes
Data is available for the occupational risk of various jobs.
The fatality rate (deaths per 100000 FTE) for police (all fatalities not just being shot but also crashing the car etc.) is 10.6. For Groundskeepers and lawn service supervisors it is 15.5 or 50% greater. For the fishing industry it is 75 and loggers over 90, or 900% higher than for a cop.
http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfoi_rates_2013hb.pdf
Over the last 10 years (04-13) there has been an average of 55 officers killed by being shot.
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund: Causes of Law Enforcement Deaths Those numbers are not broken down with circumstances of the shooting (shot by criminal, other officer, self inflicted). Or basically one officer a week.
For 2014 with only a few days left in the year, there have been 50 deaths from firearms. So it has not been any different than the average over the last decade.
Let me repeat, no officer in an ideal world would ever be harmed in the performance of their job. Their job has risk, but much lower than some other jobs. We don't see long processions and funerals for our loggers, and miners, and landscapers because they are not our public servants in the sense that police, fire, military are. So read that link again with the information you now have about the real risk of the citizen killing a cop. Read the links I gave on the long history of selective enforcement in NYC.
If they can't do the job because they are in fear, then they need better information, counseling, or a different job. I have never heard a firefighter say he or she can't fight the next fire when there has been a death in their ranks.