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Italians are literally braver than cops
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FWIW I'd take the statistic with a GIANT grain of salt because it ~~looks like bullshit~~ absolutely is bullshit lol. The Oppression Olympics gets old quick.
The cherry picked data is coming from, a literal scuzzy Lawyer Group blog post misrepresenting data? All you have to do is look at row 3 on the 2nd image which I screenshot from the BLS to see that VAST MAJORITY of that statistic is from literal semi drivers. Not people driving 31 mph around town with your Taco Bell.
Out of the 1032 fatal driver injuries, 72 were from delivery drivers. 51 of which was from car accidents. 11 were from person/animal deaths. 10 are literally unexplained lol.
Someone else will have to extrapolate the estimate for total number of actual local food/restaurant delivery to deaths. Vs police officers (129/660,288 in 2021, 73 of which were feloniously killed... Somehow the BLS has zero listed lol.) to death.
https://www.bls.gov/iif/fatal-injuries-tables/fatal-occupational-injuries-table-a-1-2021.htm - Industry
https://www.bls.gov/iif/fatal-injuries-tables/fatal-occupational-injuries-table-a-5-2021.htm - Occupation
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf
https://leb.fbi.gov/bulletin-highlights/additional-highlights/crime-data-law-enforcement-officers-killed-in-the-line-of-duty-statistics-for-2021
https://www.zippia.com/advice/most-murdered-jobs/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/01/24/most-dangerous-jobs-25-most-risky-jobs-in-america/41040903/
Edit: It is bullshit lol.
Yeah, even when it comes to being a cop the most dangerous part is all the driving you do. Suicide is the number one killer for cops, then traffic incidents, then everything else. It's a difficult job, but it's not even in the top ten when it comes to dangerous jobs. The real difficultly is just dealing with people who refuse to be nice to you and lie constantly while you have to figure out what's going on. Nobody is happy to see a cop, and that's why he job sucks.
Yep, even your first part has slowly been changing in recent years. With police calling off chases almost immediately, they're dying less in accidents. They've actually died more and more by felonious deaths than anything else in the more recent decade... They've almost always been shot more.
https://nleomf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Causes-Law-Enforcement-Deaths-2012-2022.pdf
https://leb.fbi.gov/bulletin-highlights/additional-highlights/crime-data-law-enforcement-officers-killed-in-the-line-of-duty-statistics-for-2021
Glad to hear about the first part, chasing people has been proven to be dangerous and mostly pointless. Not happy to hear about the second part, though it's not exactly surprising given the sharp increase in gun ownership thanks to the pandemic.