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Police Officer

Albert Savich

Philadelphia Police Department — Philadelphia, PA

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch December 13, 1953

Age 32

Tour of Duty 2 yrs 10 mo

Badge 3098

The Vigil Panel 89 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 377

Incident

Officer Savich was shot and killed, and another officer was wounded, by a man they were trying to arrest in a restaurant on 19th Street above Spring Garden. The 25-year-old suspect, a restaurant employee, had shot a customer during an argument over a bottle of soda pop. The suspect was arrested and charged with murder. The suspect, who had recently been released from a North Carolina mental hospital and was illiterate, testified that he thought the plain cloths officers were gang members he had trouble with earlier. He was acquitted. Officer Savich was a World war II veteran and served with the Philadelphia Police Department for almost three years.

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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 Savich gave the Philadelphia Police Department 2 years.
Thank you for your service to the Philadelphia 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

Department Philadelphia Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Platform Identity ppd.philadelphia.pa.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch December 13, 1953

Tour of Duty 2 yrs 10 mo

Age 32

Badge Number 3098

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Military Service

Albert Savich served in the the United States military before joining law enforcement.

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Police Officer Albert Savich is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.

In PA, 597 of 1,261 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 47.3% of this state's fallen. That is 47.3 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Philadelphia Police Department, 162 of 378 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 42.9% of this agency's fallen.

Philadelphia Police Department

162

of 378 officers

42.9% Felonious

PA — Statewide

597

of 1,261 officers

47.3% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Felonious