Jobs more dangerous than a police officer
Police job. Many other common jobs are much more dangerous than a police officer including groundskeepers, garbage collectors, farmers, airline pilots, construction workers and truck drivers.
We frequently hear police officers whine about how dangerous their jobs are, using guilt as a motivator to extract support for increased pay or protection from consequences of police misconduct.
After September 11 2001, “it became almost impossible to criticize a police officer’s misbehavior without prefacing comments with genuflections toward the officer’s relative “heroism.” “They risk their lives for us every day,” was the common refrain.
Police officers are trained to approach potential threats with overwhelming force, and are outfitted with numerous safety technologies such as (body armor, high powered weapons, training, multiple officers provide backup frequently even for routine traffic stops, etc.) That makes their on-the-job deaths much less likely than groundskeepers or garbage collectors.
Harsh punishment for cop killers – both ill treatment while in official hands and the threat of capital punishment – creates dramatic incentives even for the worst bad guys to avoid killing a police officer.
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Texas law enforcement agencies have long dealt with troublesome police officers who who frequently transfer between police departments. These bad cops are known as wandering police officers or Gypsy cops who are fired or resign from one agency because of police misconduct or unsuitable job performance and find work at another law enforcement agency.