Both are a choice. And I'm impressed you managed to make such a pointed deduction using just 2 mutually exclusive numbers with no context or bearing.Sixty three Police Officers were killed by gunfire in 2016. About 26 members of the Military were killed in action in the same year. Which career seems more hazardous?
Try having the career of being black. I've heard accounts that discrimination or prejudice is witnessed daily. If I had a choice between being black or being a police officer....i'd probably pick the latter and that is really sad.