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earhere t1_j2snall wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Pennsylvania officer killed, 2nd wounded; suspect shot dead by cloud_coder

Covid was and likely still is the top killer of cops. After that it's heart attacks and traffic accidents.

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Dillatrack t1_j2srsjq wrote

Shootings is second and vehicles are third:

> Firearms were the second-largest cause of death with 61 officers killed feloniously by firearms in 2021, a 36% increase from the previous year. Nineteen of those officers were killed in "ambush attacks," which the report says is also a significant increase.

> 2021 also saw a dramatic increase in traffic-related fatalities with 58 officers killed as a result of incidents like vehicle collisions and motorcycle crashes — a 38% increase compared to the previous year.

> "Struck-by" fatalities — many of which occurred while officers were investigating vehicle crashes or helping motorists on the side of the road — increased by 93% during that period.

> Other officer deaths were attributed to beatings, Sept. 11-related illness and stabbings.

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/12/1072411820/law-enforcement-deaths-2021-covid

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Unconfidence t1_j2tj5ru wrote

It should also be noted that many of the crashes in which the officers die are instigated by the police themselves. There have been many accounts of police dying while wrecking en route to a call because they're driving too fast. There's a reason this is a top killer of cops, it's because that's the one part of the 80's-90's action cop image which is actually dangerous to themselves instead of just others.

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thedeathmachine t1_j2umsbp wrote

Point being?

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earhere t1_j2un70f wrote

That the fear mongering and copaganda perpetuated by the media is unfounded

you are more likely to get killed delivering a pizza or being a spouse of a cop than being a cop.

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thedeathmachine t1_j32k2f3 wrote

You are more likely to die of heart disease, accident, or homicide by non-cops as a black man than you are by a cop. That doesn't mean the George Floyd incident was blackaganda.

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earhere t1_j32ktak wrote

so you just get beat up and harassed by cops then.

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