You forgot sex workers, which is actually the most dangerous job.
It’s probably not listed here, because it’s illegal in the USA
Depends, online, or real skin contact, in the EU or in africa?
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Violence and diseases. In consequence many sex workers get hurt regularly during their job, some get killed and many have PTSD and/or abuse drugs and alcohol.
In countries were sex work is legal this does not get significantly better, btw. I live in Germany where sex work is legal since 1950 or something and it’s a job you even have to pay tax for. They still suffer from violence. There was a protest this year to give better protection from violence.
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Probably because of desease and suff
violence
The most dangerous part of police work is vehicle accidents, just like delivery drivers.
I worked in a worker’s comp adjacent field for a while. The majority of injuries in police were absolutely vehicular in nature. Second place would be “was trying to chase a far more physically fit suspect on foot and fell/pulled something”, that happens waaaay more frequently than you would expect.
People forget about deep sea welders. Literally 15% fatality rate.
That’s insane. How in the world do they rationalize that to themselves?
Because they make ridiculous amounts of money. There are very few people who can do the job, it’s extremely dangerous and even if you don’t get injured or killed, it’s very hard on your body. Iirc most divers only do it 2-3 times a year because it takes a long time to safely decompress at the depths they usually work at (it can take days or even weeks) and then they have to take time off to physically and mentally recover.
i wonder if any of them ever decides to retire into an easier job and becomes an astronaut
Compress a large percentage of the world’s wealth into a small fraction of the population and suddenly 150k dollars a year, to potentially more based on the danger, seems worth it to some people.
I thought the most dangerous one was president, at an 18% fatality rate (8 out of 45 so far)
I would guess it looks better if you include not USA
This is
RedditLemmy, everything is always America unless specified otherwise
There’s more than 45 presidents
ACAB
Assigned Cop at Birth
Yeah, I’d transition too.
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To paraphrase someone (can’t remember who), calling cops cunts is an unfair comparison: cops lack both the depth and the warmth, and don’t bring joy to anyone
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Until we need them
For what?
Maybe someone who is armed and breaking into your grandmother’s home? Maybe crowd control for a municipal parade?
Maybe. Except they don’t show up until well after an incident, so I definitely don’t rely on them for my grandmothers safety.
Now a parade! Now we’re talking. If I had to stand around during a municipal parade I would definitely act like I have the most dangerous job. T hank the Lord for the boys in blue being there for parades!
Okay so we just kind of let all grandma’s be targets of crime because nobody will ever try to arrest you?
Yeah dude, sure. Whatever you say.
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What about fire fighters? At least they do everything in their power to keep your dog alive.
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Yeah, that does not rock.
But also
a very small minority of firefighters who are also active arsonists
Another way in which they are different.
New fear unlocked
How would this fit into Abigail Thorn’s (Philosophy Tube) analogy of arsonism?
It’s because they have too much power. Gets to their head. Same with politicians, though they usually don’t go round shooting people.
Btw one of those six other jobs is pizza delivery.
Of all the panels to omit, removing the groping one is just weird. Especially considering the subject is, you know, cops.
huh what panel?
The third panel:
https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/224480326/3rd-Place-Celebration
He kisses and gropes the woman presenting the medal.
I feel like a position of authority, the weapons, and the qualified immunity letting you put hands on anyone for any bullshit reason you want make you the danger, not in danger.
Although cops are becoming more and more power drunk it doesn’t mean their job isn’t dangerous, especially in countries* where every nutcase can get a semi-auto easily.
*USA, war torn countries , Latin America.
Okay, but imagine a job at which you have to ring the doorbell of these people every few minutes
That’d be psychological torture.
But at least they get properly financially compensated, right? RIGHT?
The statistic in question is literally about American jobs.
Just now got a push message stating that the jobs of Dutch policemen were very dangerous, according to the union, because of bad communication technology.
STEEL WORKERS YAHHHHHHHHH UNITED STEEL WORKERS OO RAHH
Idk man.
I’ve been privileged enough to live in mostly good neighborhoods throughout my life and especially in smaller towns those police do good, often difficult work. Bringing home some town drunk who’s acting difficult with access to a gun for example without it becoming an escalated scene IMO is a feat I could not do.
I just wish that in the more dangerous areas and areas where we are having trouble with police brutality for example, we could have offers to police with good standing to be relocated and compensated to help move out the bad police.
So for example if we’re having issues with police brutality in Portland OR, fire those police, then pay to relocate police with high standing clean records from diverse areas to move to these areas.
The things I see in California sometimes I’m not sure that there’s an amount of money you could pay me to deal with half these things.
Tons of jobs deal with all sorts of annoyances. Policing is objectively not the most dangerous job. The vast majority of issues police tend to face are systemic and better addressed by giving police department money to other programs.
And relatedly social workers are dollar for dollar far more effective, and when they mess up they don’t turn passersby into Swiss cheese.
