Police throughout the nation say they fear a growing anti-cop sentiment driven by a handful of racially-charged incidents is making their jobs more dangerous on the streets, where the number of officers killed in the line of duty is rising sharply.Perry Chiaramonte...
W. (1997). Line of Duty Police Deaths: A Paradoxical Trend in Felonious Homicides in the United States. Policing and Society , 6 (4), 283-296.Bordua, D. J., Lassiter, W. III, & Quinet, K. D. (1997). Line of duty police deaths: a paradoxical trend in felonious homicides in ...
The number of police officers who died in the line of duty spiked in 2020, according to organizations that track law enforcement fatalities. TheNational Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fundreported that 210 officers died in 2020, up 58 percent from 2019, when there were 135 on-duty deaths. ...
Line-of-duty deaths among policer officers dropped 18% in 2022, while the number of officer homicides that year increased, according to FBI statistics released on May 8. In 2022, a total […]Read More “Nothing short of heroic”: Dallas police corporal and his K-9 partner wounded in dra...
In a unique exploration of line of duty police deaths, Kachurik and colleagues found that police officers in the USA with greater social investment (i.e., officers who were married and had children) were less likely than single officers to be feloniously killed (compared with accidental death...
Two themes emerging fromopen-source data are also used to make sense of our descriptivefindings. The first theme captures shifting circumstances from public toprivate line of duty deaths, while the second theme suggests howadvancing technologies have been used to benefit police work whilealso ...
All officers involved were transported to an area hospital. Three officers are currently in good condition with non-life-threatening injuries. As a result of the shooting, the fourth officer was killed in the line of duty. The Lafayette Police Department is mourning the loss of one of our ...
DETROIT (FOX 2) - Monday in court was the first time the family of Mohamed Said saw the bodycam video of the day he was shot to death. The family of Said emotionally broke down listening to the last words of the Melvindale police corporal killed in the line of duty, in Jul...
There have been 427 Massachusetts line of duty deaths since 1776. Two of those deaths occurred in New Bedford. New Bedford Police Officer James G. England "was shot and killed with his own service weapon while struggling with a mentally disturbed suspect as he investigated a domestic call in ...
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