124 Police Officers Were Killed In The U.S. Last Year
Last Thursday night, a gunman in Dallas killed five police officers and wounded eight others, the worst toll on U.S. law enforcement since 9/11. It's a dangerous job - 124 officers lost their lives last year with 51 dying so far in 2016. Generally, the number of police fatalities has fallen considerably since it peaked at 280 in 1974.
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This chart shows police officer fatalities in the United States from 1960 to 2015.
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