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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Replying to @webdevMason
Domestic violence calls kill more police than any other kind of call. Theyre the most dangerous situation to step into. People are at their most emotional and most dangerous.
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Replying to @AnthonyMac001 @webdevMason
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
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Replying to @michaelkeenan_0 @AnthonyMac001
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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Replying to @webdevMason @AnthonyMac001
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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I thought the most dangerous part of policing was car stops.
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