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5. Police 14 deaths per 100,000

Reply to dflprincess (Original post)

Thu Aug 27, 2020, 11:43 PM

Aug 2020

14 deaths per full time equivalency, I.e. 40 hours. They work a lot of overtime so that makes it look worse. I bet most of the deaths are from car crashes. Traveling salesmen die because of car crashes. Doesn’t sound that dangerous to me.

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All this talk about law enforcement being killed in the line of duty [View all] dflprincess Aug 2020 OP

"...no mention of killings by law enforcement..." is the point. dchill Aug 2020 #1

So far in a year it's been 1,109-Serve and protect? StClone Aug 2020 #2

Or the cops that were shot by white supremacists? That little fact was left out of the story bullwinkle428 Aug 2020 #3

Yes, as far as I know, the last cop killing was by a Boogaloo Boy catrose Aug 2020 #4

Police 14 deaths per 100,000 Cicada Aug 2020 #5

When LEO is killed something is done about it, when LEO does the killing not so much. n/t MarcA Aug 2020 #6

I agree rockfordfile Aug 2020 #7

My former occupation is far more hazardous than LE liberaltrucker Aug 2020 #8

IIRC, it's about 20 civilians dead for every officer killed LOD. Mopar151 Aug 2020 #9