Showing posts with label police deaths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police deaths. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Law enforcment deaths by guns lowest in many years

As is the case with homicide in general, more guns in society, more licensed concealed carriers, recognition of individual Second Amendment rights, etc.  have NOT resulted in more homicides of law enforcement.  This is not data from the NRA, it is from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Police Friendly-Fire Deaths

Fortunately, one type of police officer death that is relatively infrequent is an accidental shooting of one officer by another. Since 1981, according to the report below, there have been only 26 such deaths.. The report below is, to my knowledge, the first and only attempt to deal with this topic in a fairly comprehensive fashion. With proper policies and training, most of these incidents should be preventable. Does the police agency in your jurisdiction have such policies and training?

New York State Task Froce on Police-on-Police Shooting, “Reducing Inherent Danger: Report of the Task Force on Police-on-Police Shootings,” 2010. LINK