[Oztrich Boy]

There's the top ten most dangerous jobs in America, death rate for 100,000 and total deaths per year. I don't see cop anywhere on that list, spare me the "danger" speech.

As I recall from that list, they rank is somewhere near 30. - just slightly safer than landscape gardeners

[One Proud Dad]

That would be for a street officer, not an undercover or SWAT member. Since those numbers are very limited and highly specialized, they do not meet the criteria for the survey based on number per capita in the workforce.

Most of street police work is hours of maddening boredom and paperwork.