Let's be serious here. Around 10% of police are injured per year. At a 50k salary you value your life at 500k.
So unless my numbers are wrong, which answers the question, it doesn't seem actually financially self interested to be a police officer. You're valuing your life as less than you'd make at another job.
I really don't see how it could work because there's no incentive to defend other people's property for them. So you're basically sacrificing yourself to defend a strip mall, heroic but ultimately not something there's a particular personal benefit besides to the owner.
So unless my numbers are wrong, which answers the question, it doesn't seem actually financially self interested to be a police officer. You're valuing your life as less than you'd make at another job.
I really don't see how it could work because there's no incentive to defend other people's property for them. So you're basically sacrificing yourself to defend a strip mall, heroic but ultimately not something there's a particular personal benefit besides to the owner.
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