• @[email protected]
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    4211 months ago

    The greatest irony of these high speed chases is they’re consistently the second highest cause of on the job deaths for police officers, every year.

    They’re often dangerous to the public at large, the ones being chased, and the cops themselves. And yet LEOs bellyache about ‘no-chase’ policies until they get watered down.

    • @highenergyphysics
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      11 months ago

      And the fact that construction, transportation/material moving, and farm/fish/forestry workers all have fatal work injury rates higher than law enforcement.

      Want more evidence cops are pussies? You know those viral videos where cops throw themselves to the ground because they’re dying of fentanyl exposure and 5 guys stick him with narcan?

      It’s all fake. They’re literally pretending. That’s not even how fentanyl exposure works.

      500 cops with body armor and long rifles were too scared to challenge one guy with a pistol in Uvalde. They can be beaten.

      • @SupraMario
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        911 months ago

        Just remember, 1/40~ deaths of all firearm deaths in the USA (including suicide) are from cops. They literally shoot and kill around 1,000 us citizens every single year.

      • @[email protected]
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        611 months ago

        Can’t even make them fill out a single page form to report a crime to a central federal database. Cause you know, maybe maintaining crime statistics could be useful?

    • @Spaceballstheusername
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      111 months ago

      Which one are you referring to as the second highest cause of death just automobile accidents?

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        on the job

        Key point there. COVID and other likely preventable deaths from illness that may/not be job related, do cause a sizable number. But that’s not during the job in the same way the Department of Labor counts ‘on the job’ injuries, unless directly linked like asbestos or radiation exposure.