Police work is not hard. The majority of the time, about 3 to 4 hours a day is spent processing, documenting and writing up paper work.
The occupation of being a police officer is not listed on the top 20 most dangerous jobs in the world.
Patrol officers respond to about an average of 3 calls for service per day.
The biggest killer of cops are themselves by way of vehicle accidents.
What you see on tv, cops chasing suspects on car or foot, SWAT situations, homicides, does not happen daily.
Facts y'all.
Originally Posted by USAsoldier
Not hard?
No, what you describe is not what happens daily. It's much worse. It's dealing with people likely having one of the worst days of their lives. It's arriving on the scene of a MVA with 4 teens...all dead. It's walking into a crowd of people not knowing what the disturbance is about. It's responding to the same domestic dispute you've responded to every weekend for the last month. It's passed out drunks and kids dying on illegal substances. It's enforcing restraining orders against angry spouses. It's showing up to a convenience store with a freaked out clerk who's just had a gun put in her face 5 minutes before.
Of course it's not in the top five of the most dangerous. They aren't washing windows on high rises, hanging steel or working in a saw mill. They're not getting shot at constantly even though that can and does happen simply because they wear a badge.
The job IS in the top 5 of the most stressful jobs (FACTS!) and for good reason.
Soldier boy. Do a ride along before you make another stupid comment about a cop's job not being hard. Saying it's not hard is just ignorant.