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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 ...
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 ...
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
A year after COVID-19 infiltrated police departments from Key West to Tallahassee and drove on-duty deaths to previously unseen levels, there was upbeat news on the health front for law ...
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 ...
An off-duty officer driving accidentally struck and killed Weinberger as he was crossing the street on his bicycle. The officer's breathalyzer test came back negative for alcohol. [53] 2021-07-14 David Salinas (32) Hispanic Houston, TX [54] 2021-07-14 Marquez Floyd (31) Black Albuquerque, NM [55] 2021-07-13 Jesse Joe Carranza (21) Hispanic El ...