Think being a cop is dangerous???

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>OK - a number of factors skew the pilot figure -

1. Crop dusers and air ambulance pilots are technically "proffesional pilots", but operate under much more hazardous conditions than passenger plane pilots.

2. Among the few that can afford AND are inclined to be involved in the hobbies of: aerobatics, unlimited air racing, warbird restoration and display, home-built or other experimental aircraft design, construction, and flight are...airline pilots, manu of whom have their hobby documented as a "business" for tax purposes - so when that Bede Microjet, Pitts Special, of F-86 Sabre turns into an expensive, smoking hole in the ground, very often a "proffesional pilot" working as an "employee" is technically involved.<

You can add to the pilots list those who fly fire bombers, freight and checks runs plus the "working helicopter" pilots like the lumber pilots, etc.

If the average private pilot is included in this list, then you have to add motorcycle rider and automobile driver too.
 
I've often heard that a convenience store clerk is anywhere from about sixty percent to about three hundred percent more likely to be murdered on the job than a policeman.

Of course, most convenience store clerks are verboten to be armed (whether by law or by company policy), and few of them can afford a $700-plus kevlar undershirt.

The reason why statistics like this matter is that the supposed super-high risk police are supposedly exposed to is often or usually used to justify infringements on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. If word were to get around that the risk of police work is actually relatively low, it would make it a lot harder to pass all these anti-constitutional, un-American laws.

On the other hand, if such laws keep on getting enacted, and keep on getting zealously enforced, then police work might actually *become* a dangerous occupation.

Sterculius
 
Sterculius, police deaths are of two categories: First, accidental, which would legitimately be included with the info in the opening post of this thread.

The second and more important category is non-accidental: Homicide.

I won't argue the hazard to convenience store clerks.

But a cop goes to work every day with the awareness that there is some degree of likelihood of an armed confrontation. I think where a convenience store has some minor advantage is that by complying with the demands of the confrontation, there are great odds of survival. A cop has no choice and by following through is then at greater risk.

Art
 
I'm just waiting to hear how a fisherman was beaten killed with his own rod by an angry crab. Or how a logger was called to a domestic by wifey tree and she turned on him when hubby tree was going to jail.

Look, there is an element of danger in many jobs. Work related danger from accidents or careless employees. Most people don't intend to have a tree fall on them, nor did the tree intentionally do it. Most fishermen don't intend to get their foot snagged in a line and sent to the bottom.
There's a big difference in that people are out there intentionally looking to hurt or kill a Police Officer, and sometimes EMS and Firemen too (but I digress). Where's that video from California of that POS gang banger back on leave that killed those two Officers a couple of weeks ago? Do a search for Constable Lunsford's video. How about Trooper Randy Vetter of Texas DPS/ I could go on but...
Remember that next time one of these "surveys" pops up.
 
Well, if you really want to know the most dangerous job, statistically, it is being an astronaut.

There are currently 142 US astronauts. In 2003, for instance 7 were killed in the Colombia explosion. So even taking zero deaths for 2004, it is still a rate of around 10,000 deaths per 100,000 workers per year for the last two years.

Makes timber cutting and steelworking look downright safe, doesn't it? :)
 
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