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Here are some thoughts for 2020 to continue to reduce line-of-duty deaths and reverse what appears to be a significant spike in police officer death by suicide.
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For the fourth consecutive year that such data has been collected, more American police officers have been reported to die by suicide than all other line-of-duty deaths combined. According to data released by Blue H.E.L.P.—an organization that tracks police officer suicides while simultaneously seeking to prevent such tragedies from occurring—228 American police officers died by suicide in 2019.
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The Memorial Fund announced Monday in its 2019 Preliminary End-of-Year Law Enforcement Fatalities Report that 128 federal, state, local, tribal and territorial officers died in the line of duty over the past year, representing an 18% decrease over the 157 officers who died in the line of duty in 2018.
Read More →The shooter reportedly fired at police, and the officer was shot twice. He was reportedly hit in the leg and abdomen. Police returned fire and killed the shooter.
Read More →An officer with the Tacoma (WA) Police Department who had responded to a report of a possible death in an apartment was attacked and stabbed in the cheek over the weekend.
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Anyone who says being a leader is easy is lying.
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An officer with the Mobile (AL) Police Department—29-year-old Justin Carmen—was found dead in his patrol unit with a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Friday morning.
Read More →An officer with the Ridley Township (PA) Police Department was found dead in his patrol vehicle on Saturday night in Delaware County.
Read More →The surviving sibling of the two young men who committed the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 is appealing his death sentence, alleging that he did not get a fair trial.
Read More →An officer with the Ozark (AL) Police Department is in critical condition and a suspected gunman is dead following an incident on Thursday night that ended in gunfire.
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