Thanks for taking the time to dig that up! I haven't been able to conclusively determine the units in the NIH study, but we should be careful about normalization. I don't think these are comparable as they stand:
BLS Government Death Rate: 2/(100k full-time equiv workers over 1 year)
NIH LEO Homicide Rate: 5.6/(100k census LEOS over 11 years)
Instead, we should include all causes of death for LEOs (because the NIH did so for government workers) and then divide by 11 so that both figures represent deaths over the same number of worker-years. This makes law enforcement look even safer. In fact, it makes it look safer than deskwork. This is either due to a methodological difference or due to the fact that LEOs tend to be young and healthy compared to deskworkers. In any case I think the conclusion "law enforcement is not a comparatively dangerous occupation" is correct.
BLS Government Death Rate: 2/(100k full-time-equiv workers over 1 year)
NIH LEO Death Rate: 11.8/11 = 1.07/(100k census workers over 1 year)
BLS Government Death Rate: 2/(100k full-time equiv workers over 1 year)
NIH LEO Homicide Rate: 5.6/(100k census LEOS over 11 years)
Instead, we should include all causes of death for LEOs (because the NIH did so for government workers) and then divide by 11 so that both figures represent deaths over the same number of worker-years. This makes law enforcement look even safer. In fact, it makes it look safer than deskwork. This is either due to a methodological difference or due to the fact that LEOs tend to be young and healthy compared to deskworkers. In any case I think the conclusion "law enforcement is not a comparatively dangerous occupation" is correct.
BLS Government Death Rate: 2/(100k full-time-equiv workers over 1 year)
NIH LEO Death Rate: 11.8/11 = 1.07/(100k census workers over 1 year)