Joe Rios
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Police Officer

Joe Rios

Los Angeles Police Department — Los Angeles, CA
Veteran → Accident
End of Watch January 20, 1993
Age 39
Tour of Duty 10 yrs
Badge 24216
Gender Male

Incident

Officer Joe Rios succumbed to injuries sustained eight months earlier while on bicycle patrol on Sunset Boulevard. The accident occurred on May 27, 1992, when an automobile exited a parking lot into his path. Officer Rios was able to return to duty six months later, but suffered a cerebral concussion which contributed to his death on January 20, 1993. Officer Rios was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and had served with the Los Angeles Police Department for 10 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and two children.

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Police Officer Rios gave the Los Angeles Police Department 10 years.
Thank you for your service to the Los Angeles community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Type Police Department
Location Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
Platform Identity lapd.losangeles.ca.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 20, 1993
Tour of Duty 10 yrs
Age 39
Badge Number 24216
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Joe Rios served in the U.S. Marine Corps before joining law enforcement.

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The Sacrifice · Accident

Joe is one of 8,276 officers lost to accidents in the United States, 30% 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 1993, 58 officers in the United States were lost to accidents, the 77th heaviest of 174 years on record. The heaviest was 1929, with 118.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Joe was 39. Of the 7,718 lost to accidents in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 29 and 46; the middle age was 36. Joe had served 10 years; the middle length of service was 6 years.

Age at death
Where he stood among them
Age by years of service
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When

January holds 7.7% of these deaths in the United States; August holds the most, 9.4%. Wednesdays: 14.5%.

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By day of the week
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How

Accident deaths account for 30% of all 27,552 deaths in the United States, the 2nd most common cause.

Every cause
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His people

Los Angeles Police Department has at least 120 officers remembered here, Joe among them.

Across the years
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Where

Police Officer Joe Rios

Los Angeles Police Department · End of Watch January 20, 1993

Military Service

Joe Rios served in the U.S. Marine Corps before joining law enforcement.

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His full service record — units, decorations, where he served — is kept on salute.nw.

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 40-E

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