After you get tired of killing things, you can run it over a network and kill things together with your friends. After you get tired of that, you can kill your friends. According to new Home Office research, there are more than a million violent incidents at work each year in England and Wales. About a quarter of these involved physical assault resulting in injury. High risk professions are the police, social workers, probation officers, security guards and bar staff.
Nurses also face increasing violence, as do teachers .
Violence in the workplace costs about 0.25 billion each year when compensation is included. On average there are seven incidents of violence per month in each NHS Trust in England, adding up to around 65,000 incidents each year. Around two thirds of attacks are on nurses. School violence has also had a higher profile, especially after recent incidents including the fatal stabbing of headmaster Philip Lawrence and the shootings at Columbine High School in America. Domestic violence also continues unabated, although incidents rarely make the headlines unless they involve murder, usually of the female partner.