Occupations more dangerous than being a police officer:
Number of deaths per 100,000 employed Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics-Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries - 2012
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
Police officers and Deputies: 14.9*
Taxi drivers: 14.9
Grounds maintenance: 13.9
Drinking establishment employees: 13.0
Welders: 10.5
Electricians: 8.3
Gas station attendant: 6.8
Auto mechanics: 5.0
Newspaper publishers: 4.8
Carpenters: 4.7
Janitors: 3.1
Retail sales: 1.5
All workers - 3.2
* A high percentage of police officers deaths are contributed to the police office not wearing a "seat belt" when involved in a traffic accident.
Brutality Archives - Cop Block
PoliceMisconduct.net | The Cato Institute's National Police Misconduct Reporting Project
Why cops shoot your dog
The Smell of Fear
By William Norman Grigg
October 24, 2013
Either as a result of their hyper-acute sense of smell, or an instinctive ability to decipher behavioral cues, dogs have an uncanny ability to detect fear. Owing to the relentless indoctrination they undergo regarding the primacy of “officer safety” and the supposedly all-encompassing threat environment in which they operate, cops exude a dense musk of fear that dogs can probably detect. This might help explain why casual encounters between dogs and cops frequently end with the dog being shot and left to die.
Why Do Cops Shoot Your Dog? ? LewRockwell.com
Google police brutality..or police corruption...see for yourself.
If I need a report written up of a burglary or property crime for insurance purposes,I'll have to call a cop.
Other than that there's no need.
When seconds count, the cops are MINUTES away.
I'll handle my own business.