James Harris Rosser

Shreveport Police Department — Shreveport, LA

Illness

End of Watch February 26, 1873

Age 31

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 29

Incident

Patrolman James Rosser died after contracting smallpox while assigned to transport infected patients from a steamboat to the pest house.

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153 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Patrolman Rosser served with the Shreveport Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Shreveport community. Gone but never to be forgotten.

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

Agency

Department Shreveport Police Department

Type Other

Location Shreveport, LA

Platform Identity spd.caddo.la.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch February 26, 1873

Age 31

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

Patrolman James Harris Rosser is one of 1 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.

In LA, 28 of 595 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 4.7% of this state's fallen. That is 4.7 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Shreveport Police Department, 2 of 30 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 6.7% of this agency's fallen.

Shreveport Police Department

of 30 officers

6.7% Illness

LA — Statewide

of 595 officers

4.7% Illness

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Illness