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Last Year, 128 Officers Felled In Line of Duty

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 1/14/20

Far fewer law-enforcement officers died in the line of duty in 2019 than in the year prior, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit that tracks officer deaths.

According to the organization’s preliminary year-end report, 128 Federal, state, local, tribal and territorial officers lost their lives while on duty, 18 percent fewer than the 157 who died in 2018.

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