Police Officer Deaths By Year

These numbers reflect total officer fatalities comparing january 1 through october 1 2019 continue reading preliminary 2020 fatalities.

Police officer deaths by year. Their average age was 37 with an average. 1 076 line of duty deaths last five years. A total of 106 police officers lost their lives on duty last year a 13 increase on 2017.

147 line of duty deaths last year. So far this year 211 law enforcement officers have died in the line of duty. Police officers were killed by felons in the line of duty while 51 died accidentally according to new figures released by the fbi.

Jan 1 through oct 1 2020 2019 2020 change total fatalities 105 115 10 firearms related 39 38 3 traffic related 30 39 30 other causes 36 38 6 please note. Updated september 29 2020. Louis metropolitan police department mo end of watch.

Last year 55 u s. This year the names of 307 officers killed in the line of duty will be added to the national law enforcement officers memorial. As of tuesday dec.

Seven of the u s. The average age of officers killed. Of these 48 officers died as a result of felonious acts and 41 officers.

Year by year breakdown of law enforcement deaths throughout u s. Officers killed this year were ambushed according to the fbi data including mcallen texas police officers edelmiro garza 45 and ismael chavez 39 who died on july 11 when. Preliminary 2020 fallen officer fatalities jan 1 through oct 1 2019 vs.