Line of Duty Deaths
Total line of duty deaths (since 1924): 114
- Aircraft accident: 14
- Assault: 2
- Automobile accident: 29
- Drowned: 4
- Duty related illness: 2
- Fall: 4
- Gunfire: 31
- Gunfire (Accidental): 3
- Heart attack: 6
- Heat exhaustion: 1
- Motorcycle accident: 2
- Stabbed: 2
- Struck by train: 5
- Struck by vehicle: 3
- Vehicle pursuit: 2
- Vehicular assault: 4
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“If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.”
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