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Officer Deaths, Safety, and the Hard Questions
What does it actually mean to say officer deaths dropped below 100?
In Part 2 of this two-part conversation on Heroes Behind the Badge, we sit down again with Bill Alexander, CEO of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and a 25-year law enforcement veteran.
This episode is not about celebration. It’s not about spin. And it’s not about minimizing loss.
It’s about what the numbers actually show—and the complicated questions behind them.
We talk about:
The 2025 line-of-duty death numbers and what “Below 100” really means
How COVID dramatically reshaped officer fatality statistics…
The skinny
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