Being a police officer, certainly in most countries, is not intended to involve “exposing yourself to an incredibly dangerous situation on the regular.”.

Here in Australia the majority of cops, on the majority of days or weeks, will not encounter any kind of weapon or even need to restrain anyone. It’s getting details from people, taking notes, attending call outs for welfare checks, domestic disturbances, documenting non-violent crimes, et cetera.

It’s really, really naive to say “oh well being police is dangerous so of course they’re going to die”. No one would take a job expecting to die for it.