Hey Alex, not to nitpick, but I think your argument would be bolstered by showing death rates for other law enforcement agencies, which I assume are higher. If you could say "ICE is the safest job in law enforcement" that would be an effective rebuttal to the Trump admin's hysterical claims of a "war on ICE."
edit: for example, "Did you know that REAL cops are 13x more likely to die in the line of duty than ICE agents?" I just looked up the death count for cops and it was 148; of course there are many more cops so it's not as simple as dividing 9 by 148...
Ok here's what I think the math is:
900k cops, ~100 die per year, for 2,000 deaths over 20 years.
10k ICE agents (prior to Trump's expansion), for 9 deaths over 20 years.
Very roughly, the death rate for REAL cops is around ~2x.
Hey Alex, not to nitpick, but I think your argument would be bolstered by showing death rates for other law enforcement agencies, which I assume are higher. If you could say "ICE is the safest job in law enforcement" that would be an effective rebuttal to the Trump admin's hysterical claims of a "war on ICE."
edit: for example, "Did you know that REAL cops are 13x more likely to die in the line of duty than ICE agents?" I just looked up the death count for cops and it was 148; of course there are many more cops so it's not as simple as dividing 9 by 148...
Ok here's what I think the math is:
900k cops, ~100 die per year, for 2,000 deaths over 20 years.
10k ICE agents (prior to Trump's expansion), for 9 deaths over 20 years.
Very roughly, the death rate for REAL cops is around ~2x.