Can't really have it both ways.
this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
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Fun fact! In America, bartenders are more likely to die due to a violent incident at work than police are. Overall many trades are deadlier than policing, including fishing, forestry, and roofing.
So when we as a society decide it's acceptable for roofers to only fix the shingles they can reach from the ground and lumberjacks to only fell trees less than 15' tall, I'll give cops a pass for half-assing their jobs and treating their own personal safety as more important than that of the public they claim to serve and protect. Until then I would tell them to suck it up, put on their big boy pants, and actually try and do what we collectively pay through the nose for them to do, and deal with the kind of oversight and accountability that they have so far fought tooth and nail to avoid.
Source: https://www.vox.com/2014/8/22/6053627/being-a-police-officer-is-dangerous-these-jobs-are-more-dangerous
How is it so high for pilots?
The smaller the plane, the more likely it's poorly maintained and will be flying in weather they really shouldn't be in.
I'd bet it counts crop duster pilots, too, who fly very close to the ground in decaying aircraft.
Plus all the helicopter pilots for remote industrial work. Have you seen the logging helicopters? There's helicopters for inspecting and servicing electrical transmission lines. Some power companies use giant dangling saws attached to a helicopter to trim trees along lines.
If you only included passenger aviation, I bet the count would be below average, with most fatalities being from medical conditions while on the job.
That's true, but it definitely isn't the whole picture. A group of people trained and equipped to deal with attackers can face more of them and have fewer deaths than another group of people who are regularly around violence without the same tools for defense. That's not to defend their narrative, and I wouldn't be surprised of bartenders were under higher threat, but that stat alone is not enough to show that it is true.