So if you throw out accidents and only consider deliberate actions, then how do those numbers look? And also consider injuries caused by deliberate actions as well as just deaths.
Again, I didn't offer a comprehensive statistical analysis, I read the numbers and provided the links I found them at.
But, at a certain level, who cares if it is an intentional attack or accident? You are just as dead if you die in a construction accident, or get hit by a car while forfeiting some civil assets on the side of the road, or popped by a gang member.
Being a cop is just quantifiable not as dangerous as cops think it is. Since they (and their apologists) use the danger of that job as an excuse for all kinds of behavior that isn't really acceptable, that's a valid point to make.
I was responding to French's comment:
We haven't of late exactly reduced the number of reasons cops go to work thinking they will be killed.
If the average LEO in America goes to work thinking they will [or might be] killed they are delusional. There are more than 800,000 sworn law enforcement agents in America. On a bad year 175 might die, less than 1/3 of those are shot, stabbed, beaten, strangled, or otherwise killed not by accident. And yet they routinely jerk us around in the name of "officer safety".
To offer another point of view, police in the US killed 1,099 people in 2019. So if you are interacting with a cop you are 20 (ish) times more likely to be killed by the cop than you are to kill the cop. Can we start disarming them for "Their safety and ours"?
The widespread idea that cops are in any particular danger from any random person they engage in the course of their duties is a very large part of the problem with current police behavior.
ETA: Because we are cross posting, I want to be clear: I am not presuming French or Mech are themselves making excuses for law enforcement, or otherwise OK with bad behavior. I just picked up on that one statement, and thought that deserved some discussion. Every cop I've talked to in the last 10 years seems to think they are 1 second from open combat at all times, and can't be dissuaded by numbers or logic. It's a real problem. THat one blog we talked about on here last month by the commie claiming to be an ex-cop touched on the internalizing by cops and training programs of this imagined threat.