If you're going to factor body armor, you have to factor how many roofers took a tumble, were seriously injured, but didn't die.
No way around it.
There are at least 10 occupations which workers take more of a risk than police offices, and none of them are first responders.
The danger of a police officer's job is hyperbole, propagated by their unions.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
