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Line-of-Duty Death (LODD)

Leaders have a duty to prepare their officers and protect their families — because when tragedy strikes, there may be no second chance
After the January 6 Capitol riot, DC Officer Jeffrey Smith died by suicide — his widow’s fight changed the law and redefined duty-related trauma
This could be the year we finally drop below 100 line-of-duty deaths — a goal many once believed was out of reach
A suspect in the 2010 killing of agent Brian Terry, the slaying at the center of the scandal over the botched gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious, was extradited to the U.S. Thursday
In the hours after Officer Scott Patrick was killed Wednesday, tributes poured in from fellow police officers and the many strangers he helped
A Mendota Heights police officer was shot in the head and killed during a traffic stop Wednesday
Officer Jeffrey Westerfield was killed as he sat in his patrol car July 6
Gun was used to kill Massachusetts Institute of Technology police Officer Sean Collier while the Tsarnaevs were being sought
In the first half of the year, 67 officers died in the line of duty in the U.S.
At just 8-years-old, Jacen Troxell has the desire to protect and serve
A rookie police officer slain in an ambush over the weekend had dreamed of being a cop as a kid and was an eager learner
Mourners are set to begin saying their goodbyes to a rookie Jersey City police officer slain in the line of duty
Officer Christopher Goodell was operating radar when a truck went onto the shoulder of the road and struck his parked car
A white TV reporter who voiced his opinions about black families and relations with police during a segment about a fatal police shooting said Tuesday he was suspended
Authorities in Jersey City, already on edge following the ambush-killing of a rookie police officer over the weekend, said an officer shot a man Tuesday morning
A judge has entered a preliminary not-guilty plea for the man charged in the killing of a police officer during a shootout
Suspect’s widow, Angelique Campbell, told a news station that her husband should have killed more officers if they were planning to kill him
Gunman shot Officer Melvin Santiago in the head shortly after he and his partner arrived at a 24-hour Walgreens
Officer Jeff Web of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has written a powerful tribute to fallen officers in the wake of multiple tragedies
Widow said she wanted to keep her husband’s truck but could no longer afford her lease
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K-9 Tracker was killed while pursuing 50-year-old Billy Wayne Lomaneck
The fatal shooting of a decorated police officer and a gun battle that wounded seven have underscored what so far has been a violent year in Indianapolis
47-year-old Patrolman Jeffrey Westerfield was found early Sunday after a citizen called police and reported an officer bleeding in his car
Veteran Indianapolis officer died after he and another patrolman exchanged gunfire with a suspect in an alley Saturday night
31-year-old Deputy Jacob Calvin was responding to a crash at a high rate of speed when his vehicle left the road and rolled
Police said a suspected Mafioso, one of 91 people arrested in a raid Monday in Palermo, had boasted his great-uncle killed a New York City police officer dispatched to that city in 1909
Jerad and Amanda Miller wore adult diapers and carried four handguns, a shotgun, water and food
Officer died Saturday after collapsing in the locker room of a police station
David Risner has been charged with capital murder of a police officer. He has been accused of killing Little River-Academy Police Chief Lee Dixon Thursday
Man went for his own legal and concealed handgun after the assailants killed Officers Igor Soldo and Alyn Beck
Chief was killed while responding to the scene of a disturbance at a home