[Excerpt] Firearms are one of the leading causes of deaths for law enforcement officers
feloniously killed in the line of duty. According to data published by the Federal Bureau of …

There are thousands of documented cases in which body armor saved the lives of officers
shot during the performance of their duties. A few of the cases are presented in this article …

Firearms continue to be one of the most dangerous threats faced by US law enforcement
officers. Although a majority of accidental fatalities each year are traffic related, a majority of …

Despite more than 2,500 documented cases of officers being protected from serious injury or
death by body armor, not all police officers routinely use armored vests, claiming that body …

This study demonstrates that much progress has been made in the last decade in terms of
law enforcement agencies providing body armor to officers, developing policies to require …

ABSTRACT Using the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA; 2002–2011)
database, we examined the life-saving effectiveness of body armor while adjusting for a …

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of protective body armor on a police
officer's risk of being killed and estimate the benefits and costs of outfitting police with body …

Officers who are shot wearing personal body armor are significantly protected from major
injury. However, both perforation of the vest with penetrating trauma and backface blunt …

The first documented and recorded instance of a US law enforcement officer being saved as
a result of having worn a concealable ballistic vest occurred in May 1973 in Detroit. When …

The life of a law enforcement officer is in constant danger. When an officer responds to a call
for assistance and knows that an individual with a weapon is involved, there is time to take …