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Originally posted by 6_INCH_HEELS
Oh no. Is this really true? I know they don't have the most dangerous job out there, despite what their egos say, but I had no idea that they have a greater chance of being killed via friendly fire during training than being killed out on the job.
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It depends on the state, but for many states - it depends on the gun laws (shocker) - the threat of being killed by a gun is smaller than dying of friendly fire, a drunk driver, a heart attack, etc.
https://www.odmp.org/search/year
New Jersey has some of the strictest gun laws in the US and more cops were killed by being hit by drunk drivers (and from having heart attacks on duty
) than being shot in the last few years.