Incident
Died from injuries received during a disturbance when he and two other SPCA sworn Constables, assisted by officers from the Metropolitan Police, attended a gathering of 200 persons at an unlawful cock fight.
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Constable Piper served with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Constable James Piper 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 ENG, 702 of 2,827 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 24.8% of this state's fallen. That is 24.8 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
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