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Article: Accidental line-of-duty deaths of law enforcement officers. (Research Forum).
- Article from:
- The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
- Author:
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On a rainy November night in a large southern city, a uniformed patrol officer, 38 years of age with less than 12 years of law enforcement service, was assigned to a one-person, marked patrol vehicle. He received a radio broadcast to respond to assist other officers working a burglary assignment at a local school. The responding officer heard the officers on the scene request help after they observed a male inside the school. He then realized that this was not just another accidental burglary alarm that frequently goes off on rainy nights.
The rain was the first the city had received in over a month, making the asphalt streets very slick. The officer activated ...