Police work is about the 10th most dangerous job in the US. It is safer than Firemen (Nr. 1) EMSs, construction work, logging, etc. There are about a million police in the US and some where between 30 and 50 are fatally shot in a year. A dangerous job but not more so than many other dangerous jobs. On the other hand police have killed about 400 people so far this year.
Police work is about the 10th most dangerous job in the US. It is safer than Firemen (Nr. 1) EMSs, construction work, logging, etc. There are about a million police in the US and some where between 30 and 50 are fatally shot in a year. A dangerous job but not more so than many other dangerous jobs. On the other hand police have killed about 400 people so far this year.