Watch: Inept cop holds man at gunpoint for 9 minutes during simple traffic stop

[Wanderfound]

Some relevant statistics:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-dangerous-jobs/

Police come in at number 14, after:

1. Fishers
2. Loggers
3. Aircraft pilots
4. Miscellaneous resource extraction workers
5. Iron and steel workers
6. Roofers
7. Garbage collectors
8. Farmers and ranchers
9. Truck drivers and traveling salespeople
10. Power line installers
11. Miscellaneous agiculture
12. Construction
13. Taxi drivers and chauffeurs

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While policing is traditionally considered a dangerous job, the numbers don’t completely support that assumption. A 2014 FBI report found the murder rate for police officers was around 5.6 per 100,000, only slightly higher than the rate of 4.5 per 100,000 for the general population. (You’re more likely to die on the job as a trucker or roofer than you are as a police officer.) The same FBI report found there were 48,315 assaults on officers in 2014, the second-lowest number since 1996 and part of a steady annual decrease since 2007. Of those assaults, only 4 percent involved a suspect with a firearm, and 2 percent involved a suspect with a blade. Another common fear, that officers might have their weapons taken and used against them, seems dramatically overstated. A 2011 FBI survey found that of more than 900,000 sworn law enforcement officers, only three were feloniously killed by their own weapons in the line of duty.

From here.