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The Officer Down Memorial Page reports 633 deaths in the line of duty. [27] The leading cause of death for 2021 was COVID-19 at 454 deaths followed by gunfire at 64 deaths. Fifty-eight officers died in vehicle-related deaths (vehicular homicide, struck by vehicle while on-duty, automobile crash during pursuit).
The ODMP maintains a detailed list of criteria. [3]The site lists law enforcement and prison officers from all levels of government who have died in the line of duty due to criminal violence, accident, injury, illness or natural causes as well as those who are killed off duty if they are targeted for their law enforcement affiliations or if they are acting at the time in an official capacity ...
In their 2024 book Confronting Failures of Justice, Paul H. Robinson, Jeffrey Seaman, and Muhammad Sarahne criticized the lack of news coverage on Holley's murder, claiming that while "In 2021, a police officer was about four hundred times more likely to be killed by a Black civilian than an unarmed Black civilian was to be killed by a police ...
Harris County Corporal Charles Galloway was killed during a routine traffic stop Sunday. It's been a historically violent week in Houston. Law Enforcement Deaths Are Sharply Rising
An FBI agent and a New Britain Police officer returned fire, killing Vasquez. The New Britain officer had been involved in a separate shooting in 2017, in which the officer was cleared of wrongdoing. [78] 2021-01-06 Robert Howard Black Tennessee (Memphis) A Memphis Police officer was arrested for allegedly kidnapping and murdering Howard while ...
St. Clair County Sheriff Mat King cited statistics from the Officer Down Memorial Page, a website which tracks law enforcement deaths, showing 58 officers have died across the United States in ...
This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in September 2021, whether in the line of duty or not, and regardless of reason or method. The listing documents the occurrence of a death, making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or ...
Lafayette died at the scene, one officer was shot and died later in hospital, and the second officer was wounded. [10] 2021-05-17 Yong Liu (57) Asian Monterey Park, California: Liu was shot and killed after allegedly following an officer into a parking lot with a knife and charging at him. [11] [12] 2021-05-16 Timothy Fleming (49) Black