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Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun... by Retric on Thursday February 02, 2023 @09:29AM (#34626936)
Being a cop in the US has become vastly less dangerous which changed the dynamics around who becomes cops.
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Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun... by andrew_ on Thursday February 02, 2023 @09:32AM (#34626989)
This would suggest that trend is reversing: https://nleomf.org/memorial/facts-figures/officer-fatality-d...
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Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun... by sct202 on Thursday February 02, 2023 @09:38AM (#34627056)
This website breaks down by cause and almost all of the difference is explicitly covid. https://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2021
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Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun... by autoexec on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:02AM (#34627405)
Covid is the #1 cause of death three years running.
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Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun... by Retric on Thursday February 02, 2023 @09:40AM (#34627098)
Only if you ignore the size of the US police force, and more recently COVID. By far the #1 risk is the amount of driving police do, but policing in the US is nowhere close to as dangerous as being a truck driver.
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