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Trooper

Jennifer M. Czarnecki

New York State Police — Albany, NY

September 11, 2001 → Illness

End of Watch December 5, 2020

Age 47

Tour of Duty 20 yrs

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Gender Female

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Incident

Trooper Jennifer Czarnecki died as the result of cancer that she developed following her assignment to the search and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site following the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.

Trooper Czarnecki had served with the New York State Police for 20 years and was assigned to SP Boston.

September 11, 2001 - The Years After

Trooper Jennifer M. Czarnecki was assigned to the search and recovery at the World Trade Center site after September 11, 2001. She was 28 years old that fall.

She died on December 5, 2020 - 19 years and 2 months later - of an illness contracted there. She was 47.

She is one of 600 officers honored here, and one of 38 at New York State Police.

The most recent of these deaths was October 24, 2025.

Officers who worked the search, rescue, and recovery at the World Trade Center site breathed contaminated air for weeks and months afterward. Many developed cancers and respiratory disease, and they have gone on dying of it ever since.

Seventy-two officers were killed on the morning itself. Hundreds more have died in the years that followed. They are honored here together, because the same attack killed them all. With some it simply took longer.

Survivors

She is survived by her husband, mother, and brother.

In Our Keeping

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Tributes

You walked into it and it took years to finish the job.
Trooper Czarnecki gave the New York State Police 20 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of New York. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Trooper Czarnecki.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department New York State Police

Type State Police

Location Albany, Albany County, NY

Platform Identity nysp.ny.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch December 5, 2020

Tour of Duty 20 yrs

Age 47

Gender Female

Incident Details

Cause Illness

Cause Detail 9/11 related illness

The Sacrifice · Illness

Jennifer is one of 2,028 officers lost to illness in the United States, 7.4% of the 27,552 remembered there.

34,103 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

Compare against

Time

In 2020, 346 officers in the United States were lost to illness, the 2nd heaviest of 108 years on record. The heaviest was 2021, with 564.

Every year on record · United States

Who

Jennifer was 47. Of the 1,996 lost to illness in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 42 and 58; the middle age was 51. Jennifer had served 20 years; the middle length of service was 20 years.