Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Ohio cops who raided home

Re:Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Oh... by adrr on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:56AM (#47441552)

Not even the most dangerous job in the US. Forest workers, commercial fishermen, pilots etc are more dangerous. If we're talking about gun violence, your corner market cashier is more likely to get shot, Has anyone thanked a 7 eleven worker for their sacrifice thas you can get a slurpee at 2am?

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Re:Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Oh... by cool_dude85 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:06PM (#47441701)

Probably the most dangerous aspect of the job in the US is driving.

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Re:Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Oh... by ceejayoz on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:25PM (#47441974)

For a bit, it was COVID. https://abcnews.com/Health/covid-leading-cause-law-enforceme...

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Re:Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Oh... by RajT88 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:00PM (#47441612)

I have seen some shit go down in 7/11's at 1am. You are not kidding.

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Re:Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Oh... by tokai on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:40PM (#47442185)

Its more dangerous being a spouse to a cop than it is to be a cop.

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Re:Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Oh... by shagmin on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:37PM (#47442993)

Curious how much this varies among police. Some jobs are by their nature always dangerous.

But there are a lot of cops in the USA, and plenty I'm sure have nice, cozy jobs, and then there are some who spend thee majority of their career policing areas that more closely resemble warzones or 3rd world nations but this isn't the majority by any means.

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Re:Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Oh... by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday March 19, 2026 @02:01PM (#47443350)

Roofing, I think, tends to be the most dangerous.

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Re:Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Oh... by mywittyname on Thursday March 19, 2026 @02:23PM (#47443683)

Depends on how you look at the numbers. But construction, logging, garbage collection and truck driving tend to be the most deadly depending on the specific metric (absolute, per capita, by industry, etc).

Expanding that, the deadliest part of being a police officer is almost certainly the driving component. No gun will save you from smashing your SUV into a pole. And the aftermarket modifications made to the vehicles aren't crash tested. A police cruiser is full of potential projectiles.

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Re:Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Oh... by adrr on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:43PM (#47444818)

Depends how you define dangerous. If we look injury rates and not deaths, meat processing/packing is the most dangerous.

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Re:Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Oh... by vostrocity on Thursday March 19, 2026 @02:03PM (#47443393)

Neither working as a 7 eleven worker nor a cop is a sacrifice, it's a free labor market.

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Re:Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Oh... by ToValueFunfetti on Thursday March 19, 2026 @02:44PM (#47443974)

I don't think you can use this datapoint for this purpose. Cops are employing the paranoid strategies already, so there's no way to discern between 'these strategies are needless' and 'these strategies are effective'.

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Re:Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Oh... by maxerickson on Friday March 20, 2026 @06:36PM (#47461664)

You could probably do a comparison between jurisdictions where police homicides are common and jurisdictions where they aren't common. Assuming that there are cultural factors anyway.

Like sure, areas with higher rates of criminal violence will probably have more police homicides, but it's likely enough that you can pair things up based on rates of criminal violence.

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