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It performs independent investigations of firefighter fatalities in the United States, also referred to as line of duty deaths (LODD). The programs goals are: to better define the characteristics of line of duty deaths among firefighters; to develop recommendations for the prevention of deaths and injuries
Of the 48 on-duty deaths in 2019, 20 were career firefighters and 25 were volunteer firefighters, one was a civilian Defense Department employee, one was a state land management employee, and one was a federal land management agency employee. [1] Sudden cardiac death has consistently constituted the largest share of on-duty firefighter deaths. [1]
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 ...
The Officer Down Memorial Page reports 436 deaths in the line of duty. [26] The leading cause of death for 2020 was COVID-19 at 281 deaths followed by gunfire at 46 deaths and 9/11-related cancers with 35 deaths. The state with the largest number of line-of-duty deaths was Texas with 78 followed by New York with 43.
Additionally, due to the dynamic nature of this list, it requires regular edits to keep it up to date. This list also includes those who died in the line of duty outside of Canada, excluding peacekeeping missions and wars. Stacked bar chart of Canadian law enforcement deaths in the line of duty from 1962 through 2023.
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The death of a D.C. police officer who died by suicide just days after he was assaulted during the Jan. 6 riot has been ruled a line-of-duty death.
This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in April 2024, 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 officer ...