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sitkackyesterday at 1:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

And they are that high just because statistically they are in traffic for such a large amount of time.


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avs733yesterday at 1:48 PM

At least in my state the actually high risk portion of their job…dealing with traffic collisions on the highway…is being outsourced to non police “hero units”

Tells me we can change what police are and aren’t responsible for, and it is telling which ones they want to drop and which ones they don’t.

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wat10000yesterday at 2:57 PM

Another decent chunk is medical events. If an officer has a heart attack and dies while on the clock, that's "killed in the line of duty."