Table 70
Law Enforcement Officers Accidentally Killed
State and Agency by Type of Accident, 2019
State | Agency | Total |
Aircraft accident |
Drowning | Fall |
Firearm- related incident |
Motor vehicle crash |
Pedestrian officer struck by vehicle |
Other |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of victim officers | Total | 41 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 1 |
ALABAMA | Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Monroe County | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
ARIZONA | Total | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Phoenix | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Police |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
CALIFORNIA | Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Highway Patrol, Riverside | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
COLORADO | Total | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Highway Patrol, Commerce City | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Highway Patrol, Greeley | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
FLORIDA | Total | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Broward County | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Highway Patrol, Ocoee | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Seminole | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
GEORGIA | Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Glascock County | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
ILLINOIS | Total | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
State Police, Downers Grove | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
State Police, Pecatonica | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
INDIANA | Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
State Police, West Lafayette | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
IOWA | Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lyon County | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
LOUISIANA | Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Baton Rouge | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
MAINE | Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
State Police, Augusta | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
MINNESOTA | Total | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Department of Natural Resources, Saint Paul |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
MISSISSIPPI | Total | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Chickasaw County | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Lowndes County Constable's Office | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
MONTANA | Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Gallatin County | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
NEBRASKA | Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
State Patrol, Scottsbluff | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
NEW YORK | Total | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
New York | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
NORTH CAROLINA | Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Northampton County | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
OHIO | Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Colerain Township | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
OKLAHOMA | Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Pawnee County | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
SOUTH CAROLINA | Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Marion County | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
TENNESSEE | Total | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Chattanooga | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Cheatham County | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Hendersonville | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Highway Patrol, Memphis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Nashville | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
TEXAS | Total | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
Falls County | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Grand Prairie | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Kendall County | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Midland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
San Jacinto County | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Rocksprings |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
WASHINGTON | Total | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lynden | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Pierce County | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |