[I[t turns out that being a policeman is not as risky as you might think. Take New York city as a starting point. Ed Krayewski writes: Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu are the first NYPD officers killed in the line of duty since 2011. That means that weve effectively had 3 years with zero murders of New York policemen. You might argue that we have a small sample size. No, we have few murders. The sample--actually, the population--of New York policemen is huge. According to the New York city governments web site, The NYPDs current uniformed strength is approximately 34,500. So thats about 100,000 man-years of risk, and during that time 2 of them were murdered. In The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, in an article titled Risk and Safety, authors Aaron Wildavsky (deceased) and Adam Wildavsky have a table showing the fatality rates in various occupations. Check Table 2. Based on fatality data alone, being a policeman is seven times as risky as working in manufacturing. But its about 70% as risky as being a farmer and only 17% as risky as being a lumberjack. Lumberjacks are really heroes, working for pay day in and day out to promote the welfare.of the people despite the grave dangers that entails. Or like, theyre paid to do a job and accept the risk associated with the occupation. Something like that.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 21:21:58 +0000
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