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May 15, 2025 (2025-05-15) Frequency. annual. Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week is an observance in the United States that pays tribute to the local, state, and federal peace officers who have died, or who have been disabled, in the line of duty. It is celebrated May 15 of each year. The event is sponsored by the National Fraternal ...
The Officer Down Memorial Page reports 187 deaths in the line of duty. [5] The FBI reported that in 2011, "69 law enforcement officers from around the nation were killed in the line of duty, while another 53 officers died in accidents while performing their duties." [6] (released November 19, 2012) NBC News reported 165 dead.
Officer Tyler Lenehan, Elk Grove Police Department (killed Jan. 22, 2022) Officer Nicholas J. Vella, Huntington Beach Police Department (Feb. 19, 2022) Correctional Lt. Steven M. Taylor, Riverside ...
On October 12, 2022, two police officers of the Bristol Police Department were shot and killed while responding to a domestic dispute in Bristol, Connecticut.Nicholas Brutcher made a fake 911 call requesting the police and ambushed the three responding officers, Sergeant Dustin DeMonte, Officer Alex Hamzy, and Officer Alec Iurato, with an semi-automatic rifle.
The Wieambilla shootings was a religiously motivated terrorist attack in Australia on 12 December 2022. It involved the killing of police constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, and neighbour Alan Dare, at a rural property in Wieambilla, a locality in Queensland. Three residents, brothers Gareth and Nathaniel Train, and Gareth's wife ...
Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) [ 1 ] is one of the federal holidays in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. [ 2 ][ 3 ] It is observed on the last Monday of May. Memorial Day is also considered the unofficial beginning of summer in the ...
Map of per capita police killings in the United States in 2018. [1]Below are lists of people killed by law enforcement in the United States, both on duty and off duty. . Although Congress instructed the Attorney General in 1994 to compile and publish annual statistics on police use of excessive force, this was never carried out, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation does not collect the
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