COVID-19 is the leading cause of police deaths in the US. “Blue Lives Matter” should focus more on COVID than Kenosha. The seventh ...
COVID-19 is the leading cause of police deaths in the US. “Blue Lives Matter” should focus more on COVID than Kenosha.
The seventh leading cause of death to US police is being shot inadvertently, almost always by other cops. If “Blue Lives Matter” then reform and better use of force training should also be a focus.
Give cops a pass on shooting each other (many departments do) by subtracting this figure, and we find more police are killed by vehicles than by perp gunfire. Maybe they shot Jacob Blake because he was reaching for his car, not a weapon.
9/11-related cancer is defined as any cancer at any time in someone who was in the vicinity of WTC on 9/11 or following.
Source: police stan site https://www.odmp.org
And here are annual deaths in other industries. Unlike the above, this list is pre-COVID and does not reflect the pandemic’s impact. It is also unlikely to include a broad definition of duty-related incidents or heart attacks and cancer.
Source: https://www.arnolditkin.com/personal-injury-blog/2019/august/the-latest-workplace-fatality-statistics-in-2019/