Law Enforcement Officers Killed or Assaulted , 2019

"The following information concerns law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty in 2019 as a result of felonious incidents. The law enforcement officers included in this report met certain criteria, such as they had full arrest powers and they ordinarily wore/carried a badge and firearm.

Overview

• In 2019, 48 law enforcement officers died from injuries incurred in the line of duty during felonious incidents. (See Table 1.)
• Line-of-duty deaths occurred in 19 states and Puerto Rico. (See Table 1.)
• By region, 27 officers were feloniously killed in the South, 9 officers in the Midwest, 9 officers in the West, 1 officer in the Northeast, and 2 officers in Puerto Rico. (See Table 1.)
• Of the officers feloniously killed, 25 were employed by city police departments, including 7 who were members of law enforcement agencies in cities with between 100,000 and 249,999 inhabitants. (See Table 2.)

Victim profile

• The average age of the officers who were feloniously killed in 2019 was 40 years old. (See Table 10.)
• The slain officers’ average length of law enforcement service was 13 years. (See Table 11.)
• Of the officers who died due to felonious incidents in 2019, 45 were male and 3 were female. (See Table 15.)
• By race, 40 of the victim officers were White, 7 were Black/African American, and 1 was Asian. (See Table 15.).."
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