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Police aren't in the top 10 of most dangerous professions in the USA[1], and when they are injured, it's overwhelmingly the result of traffic accidents.

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.t03.htm

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I've heard this statistic too but do you have a better source? The one you provided only has total injuries, not per 1000 or per capita.

Here's a chart of the top 10 professions per 100,000 FTE (basically, per capita): https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-inju...

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