James Harris Rosser

Shreveport Police Dept. — 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 Dept.

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 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 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 4.4 percentage points below the national rate of 9.1%.

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

Shreveport Police Dept.

of 30 officers

6.7% Illness

LA — Statewide

of 595 officers

4.7% Illness

Nationwide

2,974

of 32,508 officers

9.1% Illness