- There are more than 900,000 law enforcement officers in the United States.
- An officer is killed approximately every 53 hours.
- California, Texas and Louisiana lead the US in annual line of duty deaths.
- 80% of the departments that had an officer killed in the line of duty in 2019 had never lost an officer.
- Of the 21,000 police departments in the US, 85% have less than 50 sworn officers.
The Badge of Honor Memorial Foundation mission is to assist the survivors and departments of officers who have been killed in the line of duty to obtain all the statutory benefits that may be available to them and to train law enforcement departments on casualty planning, preparing them in advance of a line-of-duty death.
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