Last year 264 federal, state, military, tribal, and local law enforcement officers died in the line-of-duty - the highest number of line-of-duty deaths since 1974. The 2020 Law Enforcement Fatalities Report (download PDF) notes COVID is blamed for 145 of those deaths, another 48 police officers were deemed 'firearms-related fatalities' and 44 were killed in traffic incidents … [Read more...]