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Italians are literally braver than cops
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Yeah, even when it comes to being a cop the most dangerous part is all the driving you do. Suicide is the number one killer for cops, then traffic incidents, then everything else. It's a difficult job, but it's not even in the top ten when it comes to dangerous jobs. The real difficultly is just dealing with people who refuse to be nice to you and lie constantly while you have to figure out what's going on. Nobody is happy to see a cop, and that's why he job sucks.
Yep, even your first part has slowly been changing in recent years. With police calling off chases almost immediately, they're dying less in accidents. They've actually died more and more by felonious deaths than anything else in the more recent decade... They've almost always been shot more.
https://nleomf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Causes-Law-Enforcement-Deaths-2012-2022.pdf
https://leb.fbi.gov/bulletin-highlights/additional-highlights/crime-data-law-enforcement-officers-killed-in-the-line-of-duty-statistics-for-2021
Glad to hear about the first part, chasing people has been proven to be dangerous and mostly pointless. Not happy to hear about the second part, though it's not exactly surprising given the sharp increase in gun ownership thanks to the pandemic.