Government Employees Experience Three Times More Workplace Violence
Government employees experienced a rate of nonfatal workplace violence that was more than three times the rate for private-sector employees during 2011.
Local, county, state and federal government employees experienced 18.0 nonfatal violent victimizations in the workplace per 1,000 employees age 16 or older, compared to 5.2 nonfatal violent victimizations per 1,000 private-sector employees, said the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).