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2 results foundAuthor: Noh, Eun Young Title: Characteristics of Law Enforcement Officers' Fatalities in Motor Vehicle Crashes Summary: The Law Enforcement Officers Killed & Assaulted (LEOKA) data is collected and published annually by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to provide information on the law enforcement officers who were killed feloniously or accidentally as well as of those who were assaulted while performing their duties. The LEOKA data shows that the number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty by violent means dominated those who were killed in motor vehicle crashes until the middle of the 1990s. However, the recent trend shows that motor vehicle crashes have become the major cause of fatalities of law enforcement officers. These observations suggested an in-depth analysis of the data. The Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) is maintained by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The FARS is currently the only database that contains detailed information on the fatal crashes involving law enforcement officers. The characteristics of law enforcement officers’ fatalities in motor vehicle traffic crashes were investigated using the FARS data from 1980 to 2008. The characteristics were analyzed at the crash level for 772 crashes that involved at least one law enforcement officer’s fatality, at the vehicle level for 776 police vehicles with law enforcement officers’ fatalities, and at the person level for 823 law enforcement officers killed in motor vehicle crashes. The characteristics of fatalities in passenger vehicle crashes were compared between the law enforcement officer (LEO) and non-LEO groups using the FARS data from 2000 to 2008. The LEO and non-LEO groups show substantially different characteristics at crash time, first harmful event, roadway function class (rural/urban), emergency use, fire occurrence, rollover, most harmful event, impact point, vehicle maneuver, crash avoidance maneuver, age, sex, person type, seating position, restraint use, and air bag availability and deployment. Details: Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2011. 42p. Source: Internet Resource: DOT HS 811 411: Accessed April 14, 2011 at: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811411.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811411.pdf Shelf Number: 121346 Keywords: Law Enforcement OfficersMotor Vehicle CrashesPolice FatalitiesPolice Vehicles |
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 PolicePolice FatalitiesPolice Officers |