• Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOP
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    5 months ago

    numerous professions are far more dangerous than being a cop. there are well over 700k cops in the US and only around 150 die each year (except during the pandemic when covid killed an extra thousand or so).

    • aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him)@midwest.social
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      5 months ago
      1. You are 100% correct.
      2. Cops still say they are afraid.
      3. I think many cops are afraid regardless of the facts. I mean, you have a bunch having panic attacks because they are in the general vicinity of fentanyl.
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        5 months ago

        They’re trained to be afraid, that it’s them versus the violent masses who want to kill them at every opportunity. I’d be surprised if they weren’t afraid.

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      5 months ago

      It’s more dangerous to deliver pizza than be an LEO