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Author: Breul, Nick

Title: Making It Safer: A Study of Law Enforcement Fatalities Between 2010-2016

Summary: In 2015, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) was supported by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), U.S. Department of Justice to study line-of-duty deaths and provide immediate and life-saving information and to improve officer safety in the future. Through that continuing agreement, the NLEOMF research team has completed additional analysis and study of 2015 and 2016 line-of-duty deaths and added the new data to the analysis completed in the "Deadly Calls and Fatal Encounters" report issued in July 2016. Although the scope of the original project was generally defined as line-of-duty deaths with an emphasis on deaths where the use of seatbelts or body armor may have played a factor, the designer of this project intentionally built-in flexibility to allow for the identification of specific trends that could possibly affect officer safety. This pre-planning and built-in report flexibility became crucial in 2016 when the United States experienced one of the worst years in our nation's history for ambush attacks on police officers. The brutal attacks peaked during a 10-day period in July when five Dallas, Texas, police officers and three Baton Rouge, Louisiana, officers were ambushed and killed. Per NLEOMF data, 2016 experienced a 53-percent increase in firearms-related fatalities over the previous year. NLEOMF researchers continually adjusted and refined their research to meet these changing conditions to provide accurate and timely officer safety information to the field. Additionally, through this report, researchers identified other emerging patterns that required further research and analysis, including the rash of ambush attacks on police officers while seated in their patrol vehicles and a disconcerting trend of preventable Police-on-Police deaths that occurred during training. When these emerging trends were identified and confirmed through further analysis, NLEOMF staff immediately developed easy-to-understand and actionable info-graphs which were distributed to law enforcement agencies nationwide. Throughout the past year, numerous infographics on timely and important topics, such as response to domestic violence attacks, rifle attacks on police, ambush attacks and police assassinations, were distributed throughout NLEOMF's law enforcement and stakeholder network and social media outlets to dispense this life-saving information as quickly as possible.

Details: Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, 2017. 92p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 11, 2018 at: https://ric-zai-inc.com/Publications/cops-w0858-pub.pdf

Year: 2017

Country: United States

URL: https://ric-zai-inc.com/Publications/cops-w0858-pub.pdf

Shelf Number: 149757

Keywords:
Assault on Police
Police Fatalities
Police Officers