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Mid-Year Fatalities for MID-YEAR 2018

73
160

Law Enforcement Officer 14090

Deaths in First Half of 2018

80
120

70

100
60

FIREARMS-RELATED DEATHS INCREASE 24 PERCENT

8050

OVER SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR

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60

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20

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TOTAL FIREARM- TRAFFIC- OTHER
RELATED RELATED
JOB-RELATED
ILLNESS

BEATEN

DROWNED

ccording to preliminary data line of duty this year, increasing seven suffered a cardiac event. Six officers 9/11 RELATED

A
TOTAL FATALITIES 73 ILLNESS

compiled by the National Law percent over the 65 officers killed during
Enforcement Officers the same period last year.
Memorial Fund, as of June 30, 2018, Firearms-related fatalities are the
73 federal, state, and local law
leading cause of officer deaths, with 31
enforcement officers have died in the officers killed thus far in 2018. This
represents a 24 percent increase over
the 25 officers killed in firearms-related
Police Officer
Jesus Cordova incidents during the same period
last year.
Nogales (AZ)
Police Department Twenty-seven peace officers have been
killed in traffic-related incidents this
year, increasing four percent, compared
END OF WATCH: April 27, 2018 to 26 deaths during the same period
Police Officer Jesus Cordova was shot and killed while last year.
attempting to apprehend a carjacking suspect.
died as a result of an illness contracted
FIREARM-RELATED 31 during the 9/11 rescue and recovery
efforts, while one officer was beaten
TRAFFIC-RELATED
BEATEN 27 to death and one officer drowned.
Sixty-eight fallen officers were male
OTHER 15
and five were female. Their average
age was 39 years, with 11 years of
Fifteen officers died as a result of other
service. On average, each officer left
causes during the same reporting period
behind two children.
in 2018, seven of which were job-related
ailments where officers collapsed or
The data and statistics contained in this report are preliminary and do not represent a final or complete list of individual officers who will be added
to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in 2019..
 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

R E C E N T L Y F A L L E N with their own weapon, and one officer

Firearms-
31
AVERAGE FIREARM-RELATED
was killed with a shotgun. The type of
JOB-RELATED FATALITIES BY DECADE
Related firearm used in the remaining eleven
ILLNESS
fatalities is still being researched.
Correctional Officer
Tawanna Marin Fatalities BEATEN
Of the 31 firearms-related fatalities in the
1960’s
1970’s
32
63
Florida (FL)
Department of
Corrections
Q3 Firearms-related fatalities were the
first half of 2018, nine were shot and killed
DROWNED
in February, the most of any other month.
1980’s
1990’s
44
34
leading cause of law enforcement deaths 2000’s 29
Six officers were shot in both
9/11 RELATEDMarch and 2010’s 27
during the first half of the year. Thirty-one ILLNESS
April. Five officers were shot in January, three
END OF WATCH: June 18, 2018 officers were shot and killed during the were shot in May, and two were shot in June.
TOTAL
Correctional Officer Tawanna Marin was struck and killed first six months of 2018 compared to 25
by a vehicle while supervising an inmate work crew. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
during the same period in 2017. Of the
31 firearms-related cases, eight involved
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attempting arrests and six involved Shooting Circumstances for MID-YEAR 2018
Deputy Sheriff officers responding to a domestic
Theresa King
disturbance or domestic-related incident. ATTEMPTING
ARREST
Three officers were shot and killed while
Wyandotte County
DOMESTIC
(KS) investigating a disturbance call and DISTURBANCE
Sheriff’s Office
suspicious persons or vehicles. Two
SUSPICIOUS
officers were killed while serving arrest PERSON
END OF WATCH: June16, 2018 Q4 warrants, conducting investigative
DISTURBANCE
Deputy Sheriff King was shot and killed by an inmate activities, or handling prisoners. One
while transporting the prisoner to court for a hearing.
officer fatality was during a burglary call
AMBUSH
and one officer fatality circumstance is
currently unknown. INVESTIGATIVE
ACTIVITY
Sergeant 0 10 20 30 40 50
Three of the 31 cases involved an
Kent Swanson TRANSPORTING/
ambush-style attack carried out upon CUSTODY OF PRISONERS
Shelley (ID) unsuspecting officers.
SERVING ARREST
Police Department WARRANTS
Handguns were the leading type of
firearm used in fatal shootings of law RESPONDING TO A
BURGLARY CALL
enforcement officers in the first half
END OF WATCH: May 21, 2018
2018. Of the 31 officer fatalities, 13 UNKNOWN
Sergeant Swanson suffered a heart attack while CIRCUMSTANCES
responding to a disturbance call.
officers were shot and killed with a
0 2 4 6 8 10
Q5 handgun. Four officers were killed with
a rifle, two officers were shot and killed
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0 10 20 30 40 50
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Traffic-
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Traffic-Related Fatalities for MID-YEAR 2018
Related
0 10 20 30 40 50

Fatalities AUTOMOBILE
CRASHES

SINGLE VEHICLE
Traffic-related fatalities rose slightly in CRASHES

the first half of 2018. There have been STRUCK OUTSIDE

VEHICLE
27 traffic-related incidents in 2018,
compared to 26 over the same period MOTORCYCLE
CRASHES
last year, a 4 percent increase.
Q7 Multiple-vehicle automobile crashes
0 2 4 6 8 10 12

are the leading cause of traffic-related

fatalities with 11 thus far in 2018 —
increasing 10 percent over the same Compared to the average number of half of a given year. Since the 1960s,
period last year. Seven were struck traffic-related fatalities per decade, 2018 traffic-related fatalities have increased,
0 10 20 30 40 50
while outside of their vehicle. ranks below the past 10-year average even as overall law enforcement
(2000-2009). In the prior decade, nearly 33
JOB-RELATED fatalities have been decreasing.
Of the 20 automobile crashes in the
officers were killed on ILLNESS
average in the first
first half of this year, nine were single-
9/11-RELATED
vehicle crashes compared to 10 at the ILLNESS
same time in 2017, representing a 10
BEATEN
percent decrease. Police Officer Police Officer
Ayrian Williams Charles Whites
DROWNED
Monroe (LA) Round Rock (TX)
AVERAGE TRAFFIC-RELATED Police Department
Q8
Police Department 0 2 4 6 8
FATALITIES BY DECADE

1960’s 25 END OF WATCH: May 21, 2018 END OF WATCH: April 27, 2018
1970’s 27
Police Officer Ayrian Williams was killed in a single Police Officer Charles Whites succumbed to injuries
1980’s 30 SCANNED PRODUCT &
vehicle crash while responding to assist another sustained while directing traffic. Officer Whites was
1990’s 29 PURCHASED FROM COMPETITOR
0 10 20 30 40 50 police officer. struck by an impaired driver.
2000’s 33
NONE OF
2010’s 28 THE ABOVE

PRICE-MATCHED TO
RECEIVE DISCOUNT IN-STORE

CHECKED REVIEWS FOR A

PRODUCTABILITY
WHILE TO SHARE
IN-STORE
PURCHASES WITH FRIENDS
NONEMY
I HAVE NOT USED OF
THE
TABLET WHILE ABOVE
IN-STORE
ACCESS TO YOUR 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
BILLING INFORMATION
Q10 EASE OF THE
Q7 0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Other
15
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Other Causes of Death for MID-YEAR 2018
0 10
Causes
20 30
of
40 50

Officer JOB-RELATED
ILLNESS

Deaths 9/11-RELATED
ILLNESS

BEATEN
During the first half of 2018, fifteen
officers died from job-related illnesses DROWNED
and causes other than firearms- or

Q818 officers who died as a result of other

traffic-related incidents, compared to 0 2 4 6 8

causes during the first half of 2017.

In the first half of this year, seven of the some other type of cardiac event. rescue and recovery operations, one
15 job-related illnesses were reported to Six officers died asSCANNED
a resultPRODUCT &
of illnesses officer was beaten to death, and one
PURCHASED FROM COMPETITOR
be heart attacks0or the officer
10 suffered
20 30 40 contracted
50 during the heroic 9/11 officer drowned.
NONE OF
THE ABOVE

AVERAGE OTHER-CAUSE PRICE-MATCHED TO

27
RECEIVE
Sergeant DISCOUNT IN-STORE Police Officer
FATALITIES BY DECADE
Mark Baserman Rodney Smith
CHECKED REVIEWS FOR A
PRODUCTABILITY
WHILE TO SHARE
IN-STORE
PURCHASES WITH FRIENDS
1960’s 13.3 Pennsylvania (PA) Hickman (KY)
Department of NONEMY
I HAVE NOT USED OF Police Department
1970’s 23
Corrections THE
TABLET WHILE ABOVE
IN-STORE
1980’s 18
1990’s 19
ACCESS TO YOUR 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
BILLING INFORMATION
Q10 2000’s
2010’s
19
23
END OF WATCH: February 26, 2018
EASE OF THE
CHECKOUT PROCESS
END OF WATCH: March 2, 2018
Sergeant Mark Baserman succumbed to injuries Police Officer Rodney Smith drowned when his
sustained from an assault by anACCESS
inmate.TO USER patrol car was washed into a flooded field.
RATINGS AND REVIEWS
EASE OF
FINDING PRODUCTS
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
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State Fatalities Report for MID-YEAR 2018

Fatalities
Mid-Year
2018:
Demographics
In the first half of 2018, seven officer
deaths were from the state of Florida
and four officers died from the states
of New York, North Carolina, and Texas.
There were three officer deaths, each
from the states of California, Kentucky,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.
Four federal officers and two territorial
officers were also killed in 2018. Eleven
states lost two officers and 11 states

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lost one officer in the first half of 2018.
Eighteen states and the District of
7 4 3 2 1 0
Columbia did not lose an officer in the
first half of this year. Sixty-eight fallen
officers were male and five were
female. Their average age was 39 years,
with 11 years of service. On average, ZERO NUMBER OF DEATHS IN 18 STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
each officer left behind two children.

NUMBER OF DEATHS BY JURISDICTION NUMBER OF DEATHS BY GENDER DEMOGRAPHICS OF FALLEN OFFICERS

MUNICIPAL 39 TERRITORIAL 2 AGE OF OFFICER 42

STATE
BEATEN 8 FEDERAL
BEATEN 4 LENGTH OF SERVICE
BEATEN 13 YEARS

SHERIFF 20 NUMBER OF CHILDREN 2

MALE: 68 FEMALE: 5