If we're considering risk, then Amazon and pizza delivery drivers, garbagemen, landscapers, fishermen, construction workers, and farmers all have higher risks on the job than cops do.
According to the BLS, the biggest risk to a cop on the job is their own driving and parking, followed by heart attacks from not eating healthily or getting enough exercise.
> This is very general statement. I have seen social-workers taking bribes
In general, social workers don't take bribes. Making life difficult for homeless people is literally the cops' job because being homeless is criminalized in most of the US.
If we're considering risk, then Amazon and pizza delivery drivers, garbagemen, landscapers, fishermen, construction workers, and farmers all have higher risks on the job than cops do.
According to the BLS, the biggest risk to a cop on the job is their own driving and parking, followed by heart attacks from not eating healthily or getting enough exercise.
> This is very general statement. I have seen social-workers taking bribes
In general, social workers don't take bribes. Making life difficult for homeless people is literally the cops' job because being homeless is criminalized in most of the US.