It looks like the statistics were dead on [no pun intended] as far as Mr. Yantis vs. the Deputies who killed him:
The 10 Deadliest Jobs: Deaths per 100,000
1. Logging workers: 128.8 2. Fishers and related fishing workers: 117 3. Aircraft pilot and flight engineers: 53.4 4. Roofers: 40.5 5. Structural iron and steel workers: 37 6. Refuse and recyclable material collectors: 27.1 7. Electrical power-line installers and repairers: 23 8. Drivers/sales workers and truck drivers: 22.1 9. Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers: 21.3 10. Construction laborers: 17.4
Jack Yantis, spending his life in TWO of the deadliest occupations in the country,Logging and Ranching, certainly succumbed before the cops, who's jobs rank pretty far down as far as fatalities.
In fact, they rank lower as far as death from homicide than the general population, according to FBI statistics.
Cops are murdered at a rate of 3 per hundred thousand.
For the general population, it is 5.3 per hundred thousand.
Looks like the rest of us have more cause to be concerned about "going home at the end of our shift" than does the average cop.
