I have an indescribable respect for the cops on reddit trying to explain, warmly and diplomatically, that domestic violence calls are actually very dangerous situations
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I heard that it's a myth that domestic violence calls kill more police than other calls. This summary of eleven studies (not an actual journal-published review though, might be cherry-picked) says no studies found that. https://www.llrmi.com/articles/legal_update/2015_johnson_domesticviolence/ …pic.twitter.com/7iAnpTWp8d
This analysis seems to be looking at all assaults on police officers rather than *lethal* assaults, and the stats I'm finding are... hard to interpret.
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FBI says 48 officers were 'feloniously' killed in 2019; only 1 responding to DV call: https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-2019-statistics-on-law-enforcement-officers-killed-in-the-line-of-duty … This one lists 48 gunfire deaths in 2019, *three of the first ten* involved domestic violence:https://www.odmp.org/search?cause=Gunfire&from=2019&to=2019&filter=nok9 …
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Oh good point, I elided the difference between lethal assault and other assaults. I'm looking at some other sources and getting varied results. In any case, whether they're the *most* lethal or not, they do seem to be pretty dangerous.
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Indeed. "Most" dangerous is a strange categorization problem. For example, one of the officers I looked up was shot while speaking to a parked driver about loud music. Which category is that? This bit from your paper is quite chilling. Good reason to keep civilians at distance.pic.twitter.com/unbb4B6tMQ
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