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This would suggest that trend is reversing: https://nleomf.org/memorial/facts-figures/officer-fatality-d...



This website breaks down by cause and almost all of the difference is explicitly covid. https://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2021


Covid is the #1 cause of death three years running.


Only if you ignore the size of the US police force, and more recently COVID. By far the #1 risk is the amount of driving police do, but policing in the US is nowhere close to as dangerous as being a truck driver.




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