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We had on hand actuarial reports for police and fire and other groups of public employees for Ohio, Nevada, South Carolina, New York, California, and the District of Columbia and for Dallas police and fire. All of these plans use a version of the RP 2000 mortality tables created by the Society of Actuaries. The plans differ slightly in how they adjust these rates for males and females and for different types of employees. We used the mortality assumptions given in the actuarial reports to construct life expectancies for different employee groups.

The results show very little difference at age 60 in the life expectancy of police and fire as compared with other public employees. The average life expectancy at age 60 for police and firefighters was 24 years for men and 26 years for women. For non-police and fire, the comparable figures were 25 years for men and 27 years for women – just one year longer! And the pattern was quite consistent across states and localities

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
If not, there's always stripping.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
If not, there's always stripping.

Klusk, you might want to look into this!

I think you might be able to make some serious coin!

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Originally posted by chongosuerte:
I’ve heard the “Cops die early” thing forever, but I read a study a while back that completely debunked that compared to other professions or society in general.


Here’s one article about it:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/w...33-5422-D8D68689BCB0

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We had on hand actuarial reports for police and fire and other groups of public employees for Ohio, Nevada, South Carolina, New York, California, and the District of Columbia and for Dallas police and fire. All of these plans use a version of the RP 2000 mortality tables created by the Society of Actuaries. The plans differ slightly in how they adjust these rates for males and females and for different types of employees. We used the mortality assumptions given in the actuarial reports to construct life expectancies for different employee groups.

The results show very little difference at age 60 in the life expectancy of police and fire as compared with other public employees. The average life expectancy at age 60 for police and firefighters was 24 years for men and 26 years for women. For non-police and fire, the comparable figures were 25 years for men and 27 years for women – just one year longer! And the pattern was quite consistent across states and localities

Another, much older source:
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/pr/109485.pdf

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Originally posted by chongosuerte:
I’ve heard the “Cops die early” thing forever, but I read a study a while back that completely debunked that compared to other professions or society in general.


Here’s one article about it:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/w...33-5422-D8D68689BCB0

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We had on hand actuarial reports for police and fire and other groups of public employees for Ohio, Nevada, South Carolina, New York, California, and the District of Columbia and for Dallas police and fire. All of these plans use a version of the RP 2000 mortality tables created by the Society of Actuaries. The plans differ slightly in how they adjust these rates for males and females and for different types of employees. We used the mortality assumptions given in the actuarial reports to construct life expectancies for different employee groups.

The results show very little difference at age 60 in the life expectancy of police and fire as compared with other public employees. The average life expectancy at age 60 for police and firefighters was 24 years for men and 26 years for women. For non-police and fire, the comparable figures were 25 years for men and 27 years for women – just one year longer! And the pattern was quite consistent across states and localities

Another, much older source:
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/pr/109485.pdf

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Originally posted by chongosuerte:
I've seen more early deaths due to suicide than anything else.

I'm sure the data is out there for the large departments. But I don't think it is any different. I think the "die within 5 years of retirement" is an old wives tale that we've told over and over until it's become "everybody knows that", like the second link from 1987 says.