Also - lets do a posting to risk perception as well.
As the US have a way of making their people look like suggestible idiots, here is the "Roll of Heroes 2020":
src:
https://www.odmp.org/search/year/2020
i.e. officers killed on duty.
Total number of officers in the US is about 700.000. And lets say 70 of those deaths are homicide related 45+13 (All Gunfire, and all vehicular assault), lets round that up to 70.
That puts the risk to 700.000:70, or 10 per 100.000 to be killed on duty by someone else, per year.
Lets focus on black people, like the posters in here looove to do. Lets apply the general homicide rate in the US population (
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/ ) to police officers killed on duty - and lets attribute half (!) of all killings by "unknown race" to black people as well, and we'll end up at 33% of all officers killed "killed by someone kinda black".
Apply that to the general risk, and we end up at 3 per 100.000.
So lets compare:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate
Police officers are three times more likely to be killed by aids (world wide statistics, so - ok, not the best comparative), three times more likely to be killed by dounuts (high blood pressure) and even a little more likely to be killed by rheumatic heart decease (as someone in the general population), than being killed by a black guy. And here we are extremely tough on black people, because we are assuming a bunch of (known unknown) factors to be in play to the detriment of black people in our calculation.
So if you see a police officer in the US, and want to save his/her life - how about slamming that donut out of his/her hand and then running away?
Or even better, more flipping training on the force - not to "pfeel like a proper US Sherriff" - because in Germany the chance of being killed by assault as a police officer is
1,5 per 100.000 in total, compared to the US rate of 10 per 100.000 - so lets say, your society has room to improve.
(And thats a high figure for germany, because I extrapolated the police killing rate of Berlin (17 police officers killed on duty, in Berlin, since the end of WW2 (src:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewalt_gegen_Polizisten )) to be that of overall germany, to get to that number.)
Also - Germany has half the number of police officers as the US, despite being four times smaller (population wise) -- which means again, the US effing sucks at social services and could do with about twice as many cops, if they would want to call themselves a "civilized society", and not compensate that with "gun power", the trusty friend of every police officer.
edit: There is a thought error somewhere in here in terms of accumulated risk, depending on general fluctuation rate in the police force. Meaning, 10 officers per 100.000 are killed in the US every year (by someone else), while the risk of dying from rheumatic heart decease is 3.7 (per 100.000) and of high blood pressure is 12.3 (per 100.000) overall. So I didnt calculate "accumulated risk" (cumulative incidence) over active duty years. Not sure how that pans out (how many years in active, active duty for the individual...).
https://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/mph-modules/ep/ep713_diseasefrequency/ep713_diseasefrequency4.html
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edit2: Oh, and logging workers lives matter tooO! And Taxi driver lives!
src:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-chance-of-being-killed-as-a-police-officer
Does someone have the white supremacist facebook groups handy for one of those groups, by any chance?
Any T-shirts I could wear in the multicultural room for them? Maybe on etsy...