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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 ...
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 ...
Terrell Police Department Officer Jacob Candanoza, 28, died on Monday from injuries he sustained during the traffic stop that occurred around 11 p.m. Sunday on South State Highway 34, according to ...
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
The Washington D.C.-based Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund said Gliniewicz's name would no longer be etched onto a marble monument dedicated to deceased officers, [33] and his Officer Down Memorial Page webpage was taken down. [34] Gliniewicz quickly went from "hero to criminal". [35]
That’s a decrease of about 39% from the year before, when 224 officers died, and continues a downward trend after police deaths hit an all-time high of 586 in 2021, largely driven by the ...