In the past several years, there are many areas of concern about working the streets of
Texas. The state of Texas has lost numerous officers to violence on the streets due to …

When a chief administrator takes charge of a law enforcement agency, he or she accepts
total responsibility for the department and must make vital decisions that are in the best …

Abstract Since 1980, an estimated 1,804 police officers have died on duty. Approximately 90
percent of the officers feloniously killed were killed with firearms. The vast majority of the …

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 …

ABSTRACT In July of 2001, Officer Rick Norman of the Knoxville, Tennessee police
department conducted a “routine” traffic stop. The stop, made for a defective tail light, ended …

Abstract Using the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Law Enforcement Officers Killed and
Assaulted Program (LEOKA), this article examines law enforcement officers feloniously …

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 …

On November 17, 2003, the Attorney General announced the US Department of Justices
Body Armor Safety Initiative As part of that initiative, he directed the National Institute of …

The article first reviews the history of body-armor development, including how the US Justice
Department's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the International Association of Chiefs of …

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 …