… in total, felonious, and nonfelonious officer deaths over the … well as a comparison of those
trends among felonious and … , noting that most studies are descriptive and cross-sectional in …

… /city law enforcement agency, county sheriff, state police, or special … Highway Patrol or
state-based LEOs are killed less often … comparing 1996 LEOs feloniously and accidentally killed to …

… Very little changed in this overall description from 1970 to … in both felonious and nonfelonious
police officer deaths are … This in comparison with education, business, and economic …

… Two themes emerging from open-source data are also used to make sense of our descriptive
… While the majority of the analyses in this study focus on felonious deaths, we believe it …

… State law enforcement commissions were requested to review training to strengthen the …
Descriptive statistics and content analysis were used for the LEO demographic and incident-…

… A detailed description of the data set, including the Officer Down … sample of men officers
were feloniously killed and just under … more likely to die feloniously than state troopers, sheriff’s …

… found that most state police officers that were killed were at a … studied felonious killings of
law enforcement officers and found … Figure 2 illustrates a comparison by year of fatalities and …

… likely to be killed following contact initiated by an officer, such as a traffic or pedestrian … 1
We use the term “subject” throughout this thesis to represent the individual who is killed by police…

… ment officers (LEOs) as victims who die at the hands of a felon… retired Alabama State Trooper
charged with murder pleaded … sources present an incomplete description of the nature and …

… They may be called state police or highway patrol, and are normally part of the state … United
States committed in their presence, or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United …