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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Policing. 2015;38(3):563–577. doi: 10.1108/PIJPSM-03-2015-0028

Table III.

Effect of a fellow officers’ occupational injury or death on risk perception scores

Fellow officers’ occupational injury or death from
Intentional violence
(assault or gunshot)
(n=61)
Mean (SE, SD)		 Motor-vehicle event
(n=254)
Mean (SE, SD)		 Multiple causes
(both intentional and
motor-vehicle)
(n=305)
Mean (SE, SD)		 No officer death or
serious injury
(n=790)
Mean (SE, SD)		 p-value
Perception of
motor-vehicle risk		 7.59 (0.37, 2.27) 8.31 (0.16, 2.61) 8.11 (0.16, 2.73) 7.90 (0.08, 2.32) 0.0197
Perception of
intentional
violence risk		 6.65 (0.32, 2.50) 6.67 (0.14, 2.27) 6.67 (0.13, 2.31) 6.74 (0.08, 2.20) 0.91