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Agencies providing data to LEOKA reported 79,091 officers were assaulted in 2023. Most officer assaults occurred when responding to simple assaults against a non-officer (6,783 incidents), followed by drug/narcotic violations (4,879).
Read More →The average age of the officers who were feloniously killed was 39 years old. The officers had served in law enforcement for an average of seven years at the time of the attacks.
Read More →Officers killed while on duty increased drastically, by nearly 40%, in 2021. According to FBI statistics, 129 law enforcement officers were killed in line-of-duty incidents in 2021. Of these, 73 officers died as a result of felonious acts and 56 officers died in accidents.
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If you don’t tell your stories, your detractors will, and they will tell them in such a way that they can use them against you.
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We need to expand our understanding of awareness to include ourselves, our mindset, our breathing, and our anxiety.
Read More →Based on these reports, there were 4,071 more officers assaulted in 2020 than the 56,034 assaults reported in 2019.
Read More →April was the deadliest month for law enforcement, with eight killings reported.
Read More →The FBI has released the latest statistics on officers who were killed in the line of duty in 2019.
Read More →The FBI has released its 2018 LEOKA report, detailing the line-of-duty deaths that occurred last year. In 2018, 106 law enforcement officers were reported killed in the line of duty, with a 20% increase in felonious deaths of officers compared to the previous year.
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We need a better accounting of the number of officers who are maliciously injured on duty.
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