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I just saw that I pulled the 26 from an article that was written in September 2015, so it’s out of date. List from https://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2015 h
by Cenk 10y ago
I just saw that I pulled the 26 from an article that was written in September 2015, so it’s out of date.
List from https://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2015 https://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2015
Line of Duty Deaths: 130
9/11 related illness: 8
Accidental: 2
Aircraft accident: 1
Assault: 3
Automobile accident: 27
Bomb: 6
Drowned: 1
Duty related illness: 2
Fall: 1
Gunfire: 39
Gunfire (Accidental): 2
Heart attack: 17
Motorcycle accident: 3
Struck by vehicle: 4
Vehicle pursuit: 5
Vehicular assault: 8
Weather/Natural disaster: 1
So police officers killed would be 48? (Gunfire: 39 + Assault: 3 + Bomb: 6)
- DanBC 10y agoYou missed "struck by vehicle", and I think you've assumed all those gun deaths had non-officer shooters.
- Cenk 10y agoI think they categorise friendly fire under Gunfire (Accidental)?
- dragonwriter 10y agoNot all officer-on-officer shootings are accidental (the non-accidental ones are often, as is sometimes the case for officer-on-civilian shootings, based on mistaken perceptions of the officer doing the shooting, but still deliberate shootings.) See, e.g., https://www.hks.harvard.edu/criminaljustice-backup/publications/Police-on-Police_Shootings.pdf https://www.hks.harvard.edu/criminaljustice-backup/publicati...
- vacri 10y agoLooks like Struck By Vehicle is accidental, as there's a separate line item for Vehicular Assault.
- fmdwl 10y agoI'm excluding the deaths by bomb. Those are all from a suicide attack in Afghanistan.