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Detective

Cedric G. Dixon

New York City Police Department — New York, NY

COVID-19 → Illness

End of Watch March 27, 2020

Age 48

Tour of Duty 22 yrs 3 mo

Badge 2157

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Gender Male

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Incident

Cedric G. Dixon served the New York City Police Department for more than twenty-two years. He was a detective with the 32nd Precinct Detective Squad in Harlem, carrying shield 2157. Colleagues knew him as the person who would do anything to help, and as the one who could fix any broken phone, computer or piece of electronics.

He fell ill as COVID-19 spread through New York City in March 2020, contracting the virus during a presumed exposure on duty. He died of its complications at North Central Bronx Hospital on 27 March 2020, at the age of 48, the first uniformed member of the New York City Police Department to die of COVID-19. He was survived by his daughter, his mother, a brother and six sisters.

COVID-19 and Law Enforcement

Detective Cedric G. Dixon died on March 27, 2020 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 48.

He is one of 885 officers honored here, and one of 18 at New York City Police Department.

Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.

Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.

Survivors

He is survived by his daughter, mother, brother, and six sisters.

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Tributes

The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Detective Dixon gave the New York City Police Department 22 years.
Thank you for your service to the New York community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Detective Dixon.

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

Agency

Department New York City Police Department

Type Police Department

Location New York, NY

Platform Identity nypd.newyork.ny.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch March 27, 2020

Tour of Duty 22 yrs 3 mo

Age 48

Badge Number 2157

Gender Male

Assignment 32nd Precinct Detective Squad

Incident Details

Cause Illness

The Sacrifice · Illness

Cedric 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.

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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

Cedric was 48. 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. Cedric had served 22.2 years; the middle length of service was 20 years.