FWIW I'd take the statistic with a GIANT grain of salt because it ~~looks like bullshit~~ absolutely is bullshit lol. The Oppression Olympics gets old quick.

The cherry picked data is coming from, a literal scuzzy Lawyer Group blog post misrepresenting data? All you have to do is look at row 3 on the 2nd image which I screenshot from the BLS to see that VAST MAJORITY of that statistic is from literal semi drivers. Not people driving 31 mph around town with your Taco Bell.

Out of the 1032 fatal driver injuries, 72 were from delivery drivers. 51 of which was from car accidents. 11 were from person/animal deaths. 10 are literally unexplained lol.

Someone else will have to extrapolate the estimate for total number of actual local food/restaurant delivery to deaths. Vs police officers (129/660,288 in 2021, 73 of which were feloniously killed... Somehow the BLS has zero listed lol.) to death.

There was a 16.3-percent increase in deaths for driver/sales workers and truck drivers which went up to 1,032 deaths in 2021 from 887 deaths in 2020. This was the primary factor behind the increase in fatalities to workers in transportation and material moving occupations which reached a series high in 2021"

Protective service occupations (such as firefighters, law enforcement workers, police and sheriff’s patrol officers, and transit and railroad police) had a 31.9-percent increase in fatalities in 2021, increasing to 302 from 229 in 2020. Almost half (45.4 percent) of these fatalities are due to homicides (116) and suicides (21). About one-third (33.4 percent) are due to transportation incidents, representing the highest count since 2016.

https://www.bls.gov/iif/fatal-injuries-tables/fatal-occupational-injuries-table-a-1-2021.htm - Industry

https://www.bls.gov/iif/fatal-injuries-tables/fatal-occupational-injuries-table-a-5-2021.htm - Occupation

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf

https://leb.fbi.gov/bulletin-highlights/additional-highlights/crime-data-law-enforcement-officers-killed-in-the-line-of-duty-statistics-for-2021

https://www.zippia.com/advice/most-murdered-jobs/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/01/24/most-dangerous-jobs-25-most-risky-jobs-in-america/41040903/

Edit: It is bullshit lol.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, even when it comes to being a cop the most dangerous part is all the driving you do. Suicide is the number one killer for cops, then traffic incidents, then everything else. It's a difficult job, but it's not even in the top ten when it comes to dangerous jobs. The real difficultly is just dealing with people who refuse to be nice to you and lie constantly while you have to figure out what's going on. Nobody is happy to see a cop, and that's why he job sucks.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yep, even your first part has slowly been changing in recent years. With police calling off chases almost immediately, they're dying less in accidents. They've actually died more and more by felonious deaths than anything else in the more recent decade... They've almost always been shot more.

According to statistics reported to the FBI, 129 law enforcement officers were killed in line-of-duty incidents in 2021. Of these, 73 died as a result of felonious acts and 56 in accidents.

Five- and 10-year comparisons show an increase of 27 felonious deaths when compared with the 2017 figure (46 officers) and 25 when compared with 2012 data (48 officers).

https://nleomf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Causes-Law-Enforcement-Deaths-2012-2022.pdf

https://leb.fbi.gov/bulletin-highlights/additional-highlights/crime-data-law-enforcement-officers-killed-in-the-line-of-duty-statistics-for-2021

[–] Liz@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago

Glad to hear about the first part, chasing people has been proven to be dangerous and mostly pointless. Not happy to hear about the second part, though it's not exactly surprising given the sharp increase in gun ownership thanks to the pandemic.