>interpersonal violence has overtaken accidents as the leading cause of police on the job deaths.
Do you have a source for this? Not trying to argue, I would genuinely like to read more.
Upon closer inspection it seems it's more a result of decreasing accident rates than increasing homicide rates although that is a factor lately.
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-police-officers-die-i...
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