Characteristics of Law Enforcement Officers Fatalities in Motor Vehicle Crashes

This report shows how law enforcement officers (LEOs) face numerous risks in order to protect public safety. The report analyzes data from 2 databases: the Law Enforcement Officers Killed & Assaulted (LOEKA) data, which is compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), which is compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). When an officer is killed in the line of duty, the FBI gathers data about circumstances pertaining to the death. This report describes how data come from various sources, including city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies. The characteristics of LEOs' fatalities in motor vehicle crashes were investigated with the FARS data from 1980 to 2008. Simple descriptive statistics were used to assess the trends in line-of-duty deaths in LEOs. The findings that are presented in this report can be useful in providing guidelines to law enforcement agencies in addressing LEOs related motor vehicle safety issues.

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• Authors:
  • Fu, Jonathan
  • Vaca, Federico E
• Publication Date: 2011-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 568-571
• Serial:
  • Annals of Emergency Medicine
  • Volume: 58
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: American College of Emergency Physicians
  • ISSN: 0196-0644
  • Serial URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/annals-of-emergency-medicine

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash characteristics; Crashes; Fatalities; Law enforcement personnel; Trend (Statistics)
• Identifier Terms: Fatality Analysis Reporting System
• Uncontrolled Terms: Data sources
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01365259
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 20 2012 12:16PM