Maryland Ranked “2023’s 4th Best State for Police Officers”, According to Study

With President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address calling for law enforcement officers to receive better training and be held to higher standards, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2023’s Best & Worst States to Be a Police Officer, with Maryland ranking as the 4th best state for police officers.

In order to determine the best states to pursue a career in law enforcement, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 30 key indicators of police-friendliness. The data set ranges from the median income for law-enforcement officers to police deaths per 1,000 officers to state and local police-protection expenses per capita:

Life & Work for Cops in Maryland (1=Best; 25=Avg.):

• 15^th – Median Income for Law-Enforcement Officers (Adjusted for Cost of Living)
• 26^th – Median Income Growth for Law-Enforcement Officers
• 28^th – Violent-Crime Rate
• 5^th – State & Local Police-Protection Expenses per Capita
• 20^th – Police Deaths per 1,000 Officers

Note: “Law-enforcement officers” includes police and sheriff’s patrol officers, detectives and criminal investigators.

For the full report, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-states-to-be-a-cop/34669