Occupations More Dangerous Than Being a Cop

[MadeFromDust]

Top 10 list of deaths per 100,000 employees in recent years

Logging workers: 127.8
Fishermen: 117.0
Aircraft pilots: 53.4
Roofers: 40.5
Garbage collectors: 36.8
Electrical power line installation/repair: 29.8
Truck drivers: 22.8
Oil and gas extraction: 21.9
Farmers and ranchers: 21.3
Construction workers: 17.4

They need to stand down on this "officer safety" BS justifying murder of unarmed citizens. Poosys' got it easy compared to the most dangerous jobs. In fact I read somewhere when they do get killed it's not even heroic high speed chases or gun fights, it's routine traffic accidents.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.htm

[Draz]

Construction workers for sure. I'm doing civil engineering as a Batcher for a concrete company and I can get myself into some serious hurt if negligent.

[KevinNYC]

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Poosys' got it easy compared to the most dangerous jobs. In fact I read somewhere when they do get killed it's not even heroic high speed chases or gun fights, it's routine traffic accidents.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.htm

Yeah, 2013 was a historic year, lowest law enforcement death rate in 54 years. (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/30/law-enforcement-deaths/4247393/)

It's down by a third since as recently of 2011. The Department of Justice started a program dedicated to officer safety. They looked at best practices and disseminated them throughout the country. Among other recommendations, a lot more cops are wearing body armor since 2011.

Prior to 2011, law enforcement deaths were on the rise and gun violence caused more death that traffic accidents. This was occurring while the crime rate was falling.

Table 1. Law Enforcement Officer Fatalities
Total Fatalities
2009 122
2010 152
2011 173

Unfortunately, so far this year the fatalities are up and homicide by gunshot is up 60% from last year. (http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fatalities-data/)

[gts]

Top 10 list of deaths per 100,000 employees in recent years

Logging workers: 127.8
Fishermen: 117.0
Aircraft pilots: 53.4
Roofers: 40.5
Garbage collectors: 36.8
Electrical power line installation/repair: 29.8
Truck drivers: 22.8
Oil and gas extraction: 21.9
Farmers and ranchers: 21.3
Construction workers: 17.4

They need to stand down on this "officer safety" BS justifying murder of unarmed citizens. Poosys' got it easy compared to the most dangerous jobs. In fact I read somewhere when they do get killed it's not even heroic high speed chases or gun fights, it's routine traffic accidents.



So you're saying those above occupations don't take safety serious? Or because being a police officer isn't as dangerous as being a lumberjack they (cops) should take their safety with a grain of salt....

You realize you've just made one of the dumber threads you've ever made and that's a real hard feat to accomlish

[gts]

Construction workers for sure. I'm doing civil engineering as a Batcher for a concrete company and I can get myself into some serious hurt if negligent. yep.. all jobs should strive for a zero fatality rate... Just because one job isn't as dangerous as another doesn't mean they should relax their standards, to even make that suggestion is foolish...


Fact is there are people out there this very moment that would love nothing more than to kill a cop... None of the jobs listed above besides being a police man have that added complication of actually having an entity out there looking to harm you..

[DeuceWallaces]

I work in forestry and I find logging to be terrifying. I never met a logger who had all his/her fingers.

Taking down a mature tree with a chainsaw is very scary business. I really don't miss those days.

[MadeFromDust]

So you're saying those above occupations don't take safety serious? Or because being a police officer isn't as dangerous as being a lumberjack they (cops) should take their safety with a grain of salt....

You realize you've just made one of the dumber threads you've ever made and that's a real hard feat to accomlish
Who gives a fcuk how safe the damn popo are in their jobs, diipshiite. What matters to me is that because the cops have exalted their own safety above those they have supposedly sworn to protect, alarming numbers of unarmed citizens are dying every single day. And now it's been shown that their jobs don't even rank in the TOP TEN most dangerous.

Even if people are suspected of a crime, the job of the police is to bring them in so they can stand trial and answer those accusations, not fkking execute them in the streets because oh the mighty "officer safety" was allegedly encroached. So fcuk ewe and yur lame a** cop defense ewe fcuking fakkit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZDFBVH3DaY

BTW put me in a car equal in performance to yours on any track and I GUARANTEE I cut you to pieces AT LEAST 1.5 sec per lap

DIIPSHIITE :rolleyes:

[MadeFromDust]

I work in forestry and I find logging to be terrifying. I never met a logger who had all his/her fingers.

Taking down a mature tree with a chainsaw is very scary business. I really don't miss those days.
CRAZY losing digits to accidents, much more the threat of death every time out

[MadeFromDust]

Construction workers for sure. I'm doing civil engineering as a Batcher for a concrete company and I can get myself into some serious hurt if negligent.
What's the dangers mostly, falling down from heights? Nail gun accidents? Heavy object freefalls?

[gts]

Who gives a fcuk how safe the damn popo are in their jobs, diipshiite.


BTW put me in a car equal in performance to yours on any track and I GUARANTEE I cut you to pieces AT LEAST 1.5 sec per lap

DIIPSHIITE :rolleyes:

They do....


And to the second part any day, you arrange the track the time and supply the car and I'll be there... I'm always up for a day pushing on somebody else's steel.. It'll be fun

next spring is good... That'll give you plenty of time to make the arrangements, I'll pay my own expenses

[MadeFromDust]

And KYJELLY get at me when you convert those numbers to ratios so they can be compared to the per-100,000 ratios on the top ten list :rolleyes:

[MadeFromDust]

They do.... Yeah obviously, and disproportionately so considering they don't even have a job considered in the top 10 most dangerous :rolleyes:



And to the second part any day, you arrange the track the time and supply the car and I'll be there... I'm always up for a day pushing on somebody else's steel.. It'll be fun

next spring is good... That'll give you plenty of time to make the arrangements, I'll pay my own expenses
lmao you want ME to supply the car, and YOU're the speedracecar driver? haha hahahaha hahahahahahahaha

You must be a sadist, volunteering to get abused in the thing you love most lol

[gts]

Yeah obviously, and disproportionately so considering they don't even have a job considered in the top 10 most dangerous :rolleyes:


lmao you want ME to supply the car, and YOU're the speedracecar driver? haha hahahaha hahahahahahahaha

You must be a sadist, volunteering to get abused in the thing you love most lol

You laid down the challenge.. I said OK

I'm giving you the clear advantage, you have months to get ready, practice on which ever road course you choose in the car of your choice.... you'll have every advantage.. you actually have no reason to lose... If it's a track I've been to I want 3 warm up laps to feel the car out, if it's a track I've never been to I'll need 10 to learn the track and the car


as for being a sadist...lol It's not like I won every race I ever entered or was the fastest on the track at every event... I've won I've lost I've had my ass handed to me and done my fair share of running up front... losing is very much a part of the sport, it's what makes you work harder, stay up later working on the car and first in line for the next practice day...

You don't last very long if you can't except that there are days when the other guy will be faster...

so like I said give me the deets when you get stuff put together, I'll be there

[Swaggin916]

Worked installing solar panels for a few weeks and all it takes is a misstep while not wearing your harness (which guys do all the time) and it could be the end of you.

[NumberSix]

Yeah obviously, and disproportionately so considering they don't even have a job considered in the top 10 most dangerous :rolleyes:
You didn't post the most dangerous jobs. You posted jobs with the most deaths.

Any remotely intelligent person understands that cops don't fall victim to the danger probably half the time or more. When a cop and a criminal have a shootout, when the criminal is the one who gets killed, that doesn't mean that the cop who managed to survive was not endangered.

For every cop that gets killed, you can probably double that for the amount of times a cops life is endangered and he manages to survive.

[Patrick Chewing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPvCuc1_mgM

[tpols]

You didn't post the most dangerous jobs. You posted jobs with the most deaths.

Any remotely intelligent person understands that cops don't fall victim to the danger probably half the time or more. When a cop and a criminal have a shootout, when the criminal is the one who gets killed, that doesn't mean that the cop who managed to survive was not endangered.

For every cop that gets killed, you can probably double that for the amount of times a cops life is endangered and he manages to survive.
Can you support what you just said with facts? Because I'm sure loggers have had trees fall a few feet to the side of them, equipment malfunction where it just missed them etc . And none of that would be counted in their already way higher injury stat

[PHX_Phan]

You didn't post the most dangerous jobs. You posted jobs with the most deaths.

Any remotely intelligent person understands that cops don't fall victim to the danger probably half the time or more. When a cop and a criminal have a shootout, when the criminal is the one who gets killed, that doesn't mean that the cop who managed to survive was not endangered.

For every cop that gets killed, you can probably double that for the amount of times a cops life is endangered and he manages to survive.

Lol I guarantee you construction workers (especially high voltage workers) and loggers work closer to danger on a regular basis than law enforcement.

Falling, having shit fall on you, severe equipment and tool injuries. So many ways you can get ****ed up on a job site. Just a month ago my girl's dad was on a job with his friend who got bumped into a concrete saw torso first. That's one of these:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Concrete_saw.jpg/800px-Concrete_saw.jpg
Died from his injuries.

[NumberSix]

Lol I guarantee you construction workers (especially high voltage workers) and loggers work closer to danger on a regular basis than law enforcement.
So what?

I've never claimed that police officer is the single most dangerous job in the world. I'm just making the point that death tolls alone is an idiotic measurement.

[PHX_Phan]

So what?

I've never claimed that police officer is the single most dangerous job in the world. I'm just making the point that death tolls alone is an idiotic measurement.

It's deaths per # of employees. Why is it idiotic? The chances of death are higher..thus them being more dangerous.

You're comparing cops who encounter a truly life endangering moment once in a blue moon to guys who work in hazardous areas every day.

[NumberSix]

It's deaths per # of employees. Why is it idiotic? The chances of death are higher..thus them being more dangerous.

You're comparing cops who encounter a truly life endangering moment once in a blue moon to guys who work in hazardous areas every day.
I'm not comparing them to anybody.