Biden said being a cop is 'one hell of a lot harder than it's ever been' in speech honoring fallen

[Jedi Guy]

16. I read the blurbs for each profession in your link and noticed something interesting.

For every other profession on the list, the most common cause of death was slips/trips/falls, exposure to substances/objects, or transportation incidents, with the exception of #19, which was violence by persons/animals for mechanic supervisors. Clarification on that one would be nice. Apart from that, though, police officer is the only profession on the list for which the the most common cause of death is "violence and other injuries by persons or animals." I suspect that if you filtered the list to show which profession is most at risk of dying by violence, police would be higher than #22. The blurb for cops also notes that it's 4.1 times more dangerous than the average job.

This is not to say that they should be taught to regard citizens as "them" or "the enemy", because they shouldn't. The "warrior" police training style needs to go, because it produces cops with exactly the wrong mindset, sending them out into the streets like soldiers instead of guardians or public servants.

But when was the last time someone walked up to a delivery driver and shot him/her in the head because he/she was a delivery driver? Cops are trained to be aware that someone may walk up to their car and shoot them while they're doing paperwork or while they're sitting in a diner eating a meal, because those things do happen. Because of incidents like that, you bet they have their head on a swivel when they're out there in uniform.