Occupation
Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
Maintain order and protect life and property by enforcing local, tribal, state, or federal laws and ordinances. Perform a combination of the following duties: patrol a specific area; direct traffic; issue traffic summonses; investigate accidents; apprehend and arrest suspects, or serve legal processes of courts. Includes police officers working at educational institutions.
Is Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers a safe career from AI?
Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers scores 48 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is low. Most of what this job involves is not the kind of task current AI systems are good at, largely because it happens in a physical place rather than on a screen.
Its human advantage score is 57. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 64 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment roughly flat over ten years.
What Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers pay
The median wage is $76,290 a year. The lower quarter earns under $58,980 and the upper quarter over $97,190. About 666,990 people do this work in the United States.
Where Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers can go next
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Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.